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This list is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places in the Town of Shelter Island, New York. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
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 ...
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.
We rounded up the best places to visit—and what to pack for each locale—on Shelter Island, near the eastern edge of Long Island.
Shelter Island Historical Society, S Ferry Road, Shelter Island, Suffolk County, NY. In the 1996 presidential election , it was the only town on Long Island to vote for Bob Dole . But, in 2004 , John Kerry became the first Democrat in recent history to win Shelter Island, although he failed to receive as many votes as Al Gore did four years ...
View of the bridge's Queens approach, main span, Wards Island approach, and Little Hell Gate span as seen from Randalls Island, looking south. Workers began renovating the bridge in April 1992; [233] at Moynihan's request, the Municipal Art Society asked six architects and artists to decide the color in which the bridge should be painted. [234]
"Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking," Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. Weinstein is scheduled to stand trial April 15.
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