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At the beginning of the 19th century, the East River was the center of New York's shipping industry, but by the end of the century, much of it had moved to the Hudson River, leaving the East River wharves and slips to begin a long process of decay, until the area was finally rehabilitated in the mid-1960s, and the South Street Seaport Museum ...
Coordinates: 40.7826°N 73.9241°W. 1885 explosion. The removal of obstructive rocks from Hell Gate, a narrow tidal strait in New York City 's East River and a major water transportation route, began in 1849, when French engineer Benjamin Maillefert, cleared some of the rocks. Then in 1851, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led by General John ...
905,450 (in 2014) [2] Gantry Plaza State Park is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) state park [1] on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of facilities from the area's past.
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 Bronx. North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City 's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once the site of the Riverside Hospital for quarantinable diseases but is now uninhabited. [1] The islands had long been privately owned, but were purchased by the ...
For the river on the Isle of Wight, see Newtown River. Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, [1] is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City.
Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly and also known as East River State Park) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) state park [2] in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan .
Pepsi-Cola sign. The Pepsi-Cola sign is a neon sign at Gantry Plaza State Park in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The sign, visible from Manhattan and the East River, was built in 1940 and originally installed atop PepsiCo (previously Pepsi-Cola)'s bottling factory nearby. It is composed of a 50-foot (15 m ...