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At the beginning of the 19th century, the East River was the center of New York's shipping industry, but by the end of the century, much of it had moved to the Hudson River, leaving the East River wharves and slips to begin a long process of decay, until the area was finally rehabilitated in the mid-1960s, and the South Street Seaport Museum ...
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 ...
North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island.North Brother Island was once the site of the Riverside Hospital for quarantinable diseases but is now uninhabited. [1]
[174] [47] Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only bridge across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge. [183] Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, [ 184 ] 20% longer than any built previously.
Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly and also known as East River State Park) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) state park [2] in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan .
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New York City's piers and wharves were the most valuable assets of the New York City government in the 1860s, [2] worth almost $15.8 million without any repairs in 1867. [3] Nevertheless, by that time they had been in such a poor state of repair as to drive steamboat companies to other nearby cities such as Hoboken and Jersey City . [ 4 ]
The East Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan which abuts the East River, and faces Brooklyn and Queens, all in New York City. Fifth Avenue , Central Park from 59th to 110th streets, and Broadway below 8th Street separate it from the West Side .