Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City. It separates Astoria, Queens from Randall's and Wards Islands.
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat , which could mean either "bright strait" or "clear opening", and it was originally applied to the entirety of the East River. Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, described it in his journals during his 1614 voyage aboard the Onrust. Hellegat is a fairly common name for waterways in the Low Countries, with at least 20 examples. Because explorers found navigation hazardous in this New World place of rocks and converging tide-driven currents , the Anglicization stuck.
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