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The Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge) is a railroad bridge in New York City, New York, United States. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak 's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands. Its main span is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel ...
Hell Gate and the Hell Gate Bridge, looking south Hell Gate, shown in red, in a satellite photo of New York Harbor, separating Wards Island to the west and Astoria, Queens to the east. 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. [1]
The Hell Gate Line is the portion of Amtrak 's high-speed Northeast Corridor between Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside, Queens, and Shell Interlocking in New Rochelle, New York, within the New York metropolitan area . The first portion of the line was built by the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad, and opened in 1873 as the Harlem River ...
Astoria Park is a 59.96-acre (24.26 ha) public park in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The park is situated on the eastern shore of the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Ditmars Boulevard to the north and Hoyt Avenue to the south. The Robert F. Kennedy (Triborough) and Hell Gate Bridges respectively pass over ...
Hell Gate Bridge. Gustav Lindenthal (May 21, 1850 – July 31, 1935) was a civil engineer who designed the Queensboro and Hell Gate bridges in New York City, among other bridges. [ 1]: 283 Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil ...
1885 explosion. The removal of obstructive rocks from Hell Gate, a narrow tidal strait in New York City 's East River and a major water transportation route, began in 1849, when French engineer Benjamin Maillefert, cleared some of the rocks. Then in 1851, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led by General John Newton, began to do the job, in an ...
The Harlem River is an 8-mile (13 km) tidal strait in New York City, New York, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the United States mainland. The northern stretch, also called the Spuyten Duyvil ("spewing devil") Creek, has been significantly altered for navigation ...
Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. [1] [2] [3] Part of the borough of Manhattan, is separated from Manhattan Island by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.