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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, it 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.
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Low German or Dutch phrase Hellegat which means “bright gate”. It first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt. [2] The name was originally applied to the entirety of the East River, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, who bestowed the name sometime during his 1614–1616 voyage aboard the Onrust ...
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 .
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A Miracle Hill employee was stabbed in the stomach by a woman evicted from the property, according to the Greenville County Sheriff's Office. According to Lt. Ryan Flood with the GCSO, a violent ...
On June 28, 2015, westbound M35 buses were rerouted along Hell Gate Circle. [97] M42: Surface Transportation Corporation bus route (M106) replaced Third Avenue Railway's 42nd Street Crosstown Line streetcar on November 17, 1946. This route was renumbered the M42 on March 30, 1986. [98]
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat (it first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt), [5] which could mean either "bright strait" or "clear opening", [6] and it was originally applied to the entirety of the East River.
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