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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.
The first known bridge to Wards Island was a wooden drawbridge between East 114th Street in Manhattan to the northwest corner of the island. The bridge was built in 1807 to serve a cotton business run by Philip Milledolar and Bartholomew Ward and lasted until 1821, when it was destroyed by a storm.
The Manhattan Psychiatric Center is a New York-state run psychiatric hospital on Wards Island in New York City. As of 2009, it was licensed for 509 beds, but holds only around 200 patients. The current building is 17 stories tall. [1] The building strongly resembles the main building of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.
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.
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat.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 circumnavigating Long Island, from its ...
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.
The largest of these parks was Randall's Island Park, located on Wards and Randalls Islands. [210] [211] The park on Randalls Island was approved in February 1935 [212] and included an Olympic-sized running track called Downing Stadium, work on which began in mid-1935; [210] [213] the stadium was incomplete at the time of the bridge's opening ...