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A prior attempt to link Brooklyn and Staten Island, using the Staten Island Tunnel, had commenced in 1923 but was canceled two years later. [2]: 135 [10] [11] That tunnel would have extended New York City Subway service from Brooklyn to Staten Island. [12] This proposal was also revived with the announcement of the Liberty Bridge.
The site has views of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Brooklyn's Shore Parkway, Governors Island, and Manhattan. During the summer months, concerts and events sponsored by local organizations such as Staten Island Community Board 1 and the Downtown Staten Island Council attract tourists from the ferry as well as local residents.
There are two small artificial islands in Lower New York Bay, both located a mile offshore from South Beach, Staten Island. Hoffman Island was created in 1873 from Orchard Shoals. It was named for former New York City mayor (1866–1868) and then-current New York Governor (1869–1871) John T. Hoffman .
The Narrows was most likely formed after deposition of the Harbor Hill Moraine about 18,000 years prior to the end of the last prehistoric ice age.Previously, Staten Island and Long Island / were connected and the Hudson River emptied into the Atlantic Ocean through the Raritan River, taking then a more westerly course through parts of present-day northern New Jersey, along the eastern side of ...
The Goethals Bridge (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ θ əl z /) is the name of a pair of cable-stayed bridge spans connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Staten Island, New York, in the United States. The spans cross a strait known as Arthur Kill, and replaced a cantilever bridge span built in 1928. The bridge is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New ...
The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge is a rail vertical-lift bridge connecting Elizabethport, New Jersey, and the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island, New York, United States. The bridge was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1959 to replace the Arthur Kill Bridge , a swing bridge opened in 1890. [ 6 ]
New York State Route 440 (NY 440) is a freeway located entirely on Staten Island in New York City. The route acts as a connector between the two segments of New Jersey Route 440 , running from the Staten Island community of Richmond Valley in the south to Port Richmond in the north.
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the south.