Goose Island

Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is, at 2,772 acres, the largest public park in New York City.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pelham Bay Bridge and City Island station.

Pelham Bay Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

The Pelham Bay Bridge, also known as the Amtrak Hutchinson River Bridge, is a two-track movable railroad bridge that carries the Northeast Corridor over the Hutchinson River in the Bronx, New York, upstream from the vehicular/pedestrian Pelham Bridge.

City Island station

Historic building

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

City Island station, is a former railway station within Pelham Bay Park, along the Hell Gate Line in the Bronx, New York. A larger stone station house was designed for the station by Cass Gilbert and built in 1908, remaining in use up until the 1930s.

Pelham Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The Pelham Bridge is a bascule bridge located in the New York City borough of the Bronx, just downstream of the railroad Pelham Bay Bridge. It carries Shore Road and a walkway along the downstream side, over the Hutchinson River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Co-op City and Baychester.

Co-op City

Neighborhood

Photo: Sacme, CC BY 3.0.

Co-op City is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods.

Baychester

Neighborhood

Baychester is a neighborhood geographically located in the northeast part of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are East 222nd Street to the northeast, the New England Thruway to the east, Gun Hill Road to the southwest, and Boston Road to the northwest.

Pelham

Photo: Sscheinfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pelham is a town in Westchester County, New York. It contains villages called Pelham and Pelham Manor.

Goose Island

Type: Island
Description: island in Bronx County, New York, United States of America
Categories: river island, locality, and landform
Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.86568° or 40° 51′ 57″ north

Longitude

-73.81841° or 73° 49′ 6″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

87G8V58J+7J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 394092813

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

5118852

Wikidata ID

Q19866836

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Goose Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Goose Island”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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