Hell Gate is a tidal strait in the East River between Astoria, Queens and Wards and Randalls Islands, on the tidal waterway joining Long Island Sound and New York's Upper Bay. The tide is mixed semidiurnal; with no tide-height station at Hell Gate itself, the nearest reference is Kings Point, NY, with a mean range of 7.16 ft (2.18 m).
- Type
- Tidal strait
- Location
- New York, United States
- Setting
- In the East River between Astoria, Queens and Wards and Randalls Islands, on the tidal waterway joining Long Island Sound and New York's Upper Bay
- Tidal range
- The tide is mixed semidiurnal; with no tide-height station at Hell Gate itself, the nearest reference is Kings Point, NY, with a mean range of 7.16 ft (2.18 m).
- Notable
- In 1885 the US Army Corps of Engineers detonated Flood Rock with about 300,000 lb of explosives to clear the channel — the largest peacetime explosion in US history before the atomic era (US Army Corps of Engineers).
