Talk:Ambrose Channel

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Isn't the original description: "the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey" more accurate than the current "main shipping canal[sic] between the ports of New York and Boston"? As I read the description and the chart, Ambrose Light marks the SE end of the channel. "The channel [which] follows the coastline and its eastern terminous is near the Nantucket Shoals" is the "Nantucket-Ambrose Shipping Lane". —wwoods 21:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe I had created this article and at some point while working on other articles related to Nantucket I discovered conflicting information and updated this page accordingly at that time. Now I believe I was confusing the Ambrose to Nantucket shipping lane with the Ambrose Channel. The article has now been reverted to the edit on 10, May 2006 which removes the incorrect information. This edit does not remove any valid info that has been added to or edited since. This edit also includes a link to the NOAA chart which clearly marks the Ambrose Channel. And at some point in the future I'll return to add some information I found on the internet about the guy who the channel is named for, Mr. Something-or-other Ambrose, who was a no name local level polititian who only contribution to New York City was to lobby Congress to pay for the dredging of the channel named for him. And he even died before the funding came through. Just thought it would be nice to added some historical info too. But right now, I'm not in contributing mode so everything I was working on three months ago is holding.

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Verrazano Narrows Bridge
The article says "...Ambrose Channel terminates at Ambrose Anchorage, just south of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge". This is should read "just north of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge". The "south" in the referenced citation is a typo - see the image of the Ambrose Channel on the same web page, clearly showing the channel extending north beyond the bridge. See also the Navionics Marine Chart online at https://webapp.navionics.com/#boating@13&key=idzvFdt%7CbM (I would confirm this with a NOAA chart but, due to the shutdown, I don't have access to the NOAA charts online at the moment).

Update: The channel appears to have been extended in the last ten years - a 2009 chart I found shows the channel ending at buoys 22/23 at latitude 40 degrees 34'', well south of the bridge. The new section is referred to as "Reach D" - see https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Portals/37/docs/civilworks/ConDep/CDR_2017/Nov17/Ambrose_CDR_2017_Report.pdf?ver=2017-11-07-103722-587 - and ends "approximately 2,060 feet landward of the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge. ".

Scartboy (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2019 (UTC)