New York Bay
- proper noun
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Bahía de Nueva York
- The fishing boats often dock in New York Bay to unload their daily catch.
Examples
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Gaps would allow ships, river water, and tides through, but movable gates could close off all of New York Bay from the Atlantic when necessary.
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Part of this work involves deepening the Kill Van Kull channel, which connects Upper New York Bay with Newark Bay, and serves as the main route for ships docking at the busy New Jersey harbors of Port Newark and Port Elizabeth.
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During the storm, the waters of New York Bay rose dramatically, flooding the waterfront areas.
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Many tourists visit New York Bay to enjoy scenic views of the Manhattan skyline.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward place-name composed of the proper name 'New York' and the geographic noun 'bay'; a B1 learner who knows 'New York' and 'bay' can readily infer it refers to the bay near New York. This follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar pattern (place-name + geographic feature), so the meaning is fully derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
New York Bay comes from a simple picture: it is the bay beside the city of New York, where the Hudson River flows into the ocean. So, the name still means 'the large bay by New York City'.
