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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.
Hell Gate and the Hell Gate Bridge, looking north 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 Bridge was conceived in the early 1900s to link New York and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) with New England and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad (NH). [6] In June 1906, the NH applied for and received a franchise to operate trains from the northeastern suburbs of New York City to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown ...
Officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge Hell Gate Bridge: 1916: 1,020 310: 3 rail tracks (2 of Northeast Corridor, 1 of New York Connecting Railroad) Rikers Island Bridge: 1966: 4,200.0 1,280.16: 2 lanes of roadway: Only connects Rikers Island to Queens Bronx–Whitestone Bridge: 1939: 3,770.0 1,149.10: 6 lanes of I-678 (Whitestone ...
This became the Hell Gate Bridge, which was dedicated March 9, 1917. [131] The Hell Gate Bridge includes plate girder spans across both islands, as well as a through arch bridge across Hell Gate to the southeast. [328] [329] The bridge also includes an inverted bowstring truss section, with four 300-foot (91 m) long spans, across Little Hell ...
It links New York City and Long Island by rail directly to the North American mainland. Amtrak, CSX, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Providence and Worcester Railroad and New York and Atlantic Railway (NYAR) currently use the line. It runs from the Hell Gate Bridge over the East River to Fresh Pond Junction yard in Glendale in Queens. It was ...
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The construction of the Triborough Bridge across Little Hell Gate also required the demolition of hospital buildings on Randalls and Wards Islands. [154] The New York City Department of Hospitals applied for funds to build the Seaview Hospital on Staten Island, which would house the hospital facilities displaced by the Triborough Bridge. [155]