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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.
Randalls and Wards Islands is an island in New York City's East River. Pages in category "Randalls and Wards Islands" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Pedestrian access to Randalls and Wards Islands was established with the opening of the Triborough Bridge by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority in 1936. Although plans to construct a separate pedestrian bridge to provide Manhattan residents better access to the new Wards Island Park were developed by Robert Moses in 1937, construction ...
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on Wards Island in New York City, [1] operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony patients. [2] The building, described as "fortresslike", is adjacent to the Manhattan Psychiatric ...
North of the Wards Island viaduct, trains cross the former Little Hell Gate strait to reach the Randalls Island viaduct. [275] [288] The viaduct across Randalls Island is about 1,965 feet (599 m) long [275] [263] and measures about 75 to 80 feet (23 to 24 m) high. [86] It is supported by concrete arches similar to those on Wards Island.
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The New York City borough of Manhattan contains numerous smaller islands in addition to the main island of Manhattan. [2] Three of these islands, Ellis Island, Governors Island, and Liberty Island, are located in Upper New York Bay, [3]: 9 though jurisdiction of Ellis Island is shared with neighboring Jersey City, New Jersey, and Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan within New Jersey.
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]