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Kill Van Kull |
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Kill Van Kull (kĭl văn kŭl), channel, 4 mi (6.4 km) long and .5 mi (.8 km) wide, connecting Upper New York Bay with Newark Bay, between Bayonne, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y. It is the main route for ships docking at the busy harbors of Port Elizabeth and Port Newark, N.J. Bayonne Bridge (1931; 1,652 ft/504 m long), the second longest steel-arch bridge in the United States, spans the channel. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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One day last December, the station received a call from police officers that a person had fallen into the Kill van Kull, a tidal strait separating Staten Island from Bayonne, New Jersey. In Bayonne, the Gebroe-Hammer team of Callahan and Alan Lieberman, vice president, handled the bulk sale of 17 condominium units within a converted four-story building located near the Kill Van Kull channel in Bayonne, NJ. The Arthur Kill Channel 41-foot navigation project spans the New York/New Jersey Harbor from the confluence of the Kill Van Kull and Newark Bay Channels to the New York Container Terminal in Staten Island and is an important link in the harbor estuary system. |
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