New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter X - DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Subchapter B - CLASSES AND STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND PURITY ASSIGNED TO FRESH SURFACE AND TIDAL SALT WATERS
Article 13 - NEW YORK CITY WATERS SERIES
Part 890 - NEW YORK CITY WATERS
Section 890.2 - Designated waters

(1) the drainage basin of New York Bay below the mouth of the Hudson River at the south tip of Manhattan Island, including Gravesend Bay, Coney Island Creek, Atlantic Basin, Erie Basin, Gowanus Bay, Gowanus Canal, Upper New York Bay, Lower New York Bay, The Narrows and the Atlantic Ocean waters, including the drainage area off Coney Island and lying westerly of a north-south line from Light Inlet at the southeasterly tip of Coney Island peninsula to the southwesterly tip of Rockaway Point; thence along the jetty to Rockaway jetty light; thence due south to the New York - New Jersey boundary line;

(2) the lower East River drainage basin from the mouth to a line across the East River north of Wards Island between Stony Point in Bronx County and Lawrence Point in Queens County; and

(3) the drainage basins of Arthur Kill, Kill Van Kull, the Harlem River and Raritan Bay.