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 in Manhattan. The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat. It first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt. The name was originally applied to the entirety of the East River, by Dutch explorer …
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 in Manhattan. The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat. It first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt. The name was originally applied to the entirety of the East River, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, who bestowed the name sometime during his 1614–1616 voyage aboard the Onrust circumnavigating Long Island, from its namesake Hellegat on the River Scheldt, in Zeeland back in the Netherlands.
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