High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or the Upper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside The Narrows. It is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne. It is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal.