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The Catalina Channel, 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) between Catalina Island and the California mainland; The 20 Bridges Swim (formerly known as Manhattan Island Swim), a 48.5-kilometre (30.1 mi) circumnavigation of Manhattan Island, New York City. As of October 2023, 366 swimmers had earned this distinction. [1]
He completed the 28.5-mile 20 Bridges swim last fall and even attempted to swim across Lake Michigan in 2023, though he was halted at the halfway point after a mechanical failure on his support boat.
The bridge, composed of stone abutments and a timber deck, was demolished in 1917. The oldest crossing still standing is High Bridge, built in 1848 to carry the Croton Aqueduct from Manhattan to the Bronx over the Harlem River. [6] This bridge was built to carry water to the city as part of the Croton Aqueduct system.
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We love Astoria Park Pool and McCarren Park Pool as much as the next New Yorker, but let’s be honest: Sometimes it’s nice to swim somewhere that isn’t surrounded by concrete. Breathtaking ...
Earlier, Corson had completed the swim around Manhattan Island, a distance of 42 miles, and had also completed the swim from Albany, New York, to New York City, swimming the distance in a total of 5 days, 3 hours and 11.5 minutes. The straight-line distance between the two points is 143 miles, but Corson swam an extra 10 miles due to various ...
The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (originally and often referred to as the Marine Parkway Bridge) is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens , with Flatbush Avenue to Floyd Bennett Field , Belt Parkway , and ...
The bridge in the background is the Manhattan Bridge. New York City Waterfalls is a public art project by artist Olafur Eliasson, in collaboration with the Public Art Fund, consisting of four man-made waterfalls placed around New York City along the East River. The most famous was at the Brooklyn Bridge in lower Manhattan.