Wards Island
Randalls Island and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. 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.Photo: Rgoogin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: conjoined islands in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as: “Buchanan’s Island”, “Great Barcut Island”, “Great Barn Island”, “Randall’s and Ward’s Islands”, “Randall’s Island”, “Randalls and Wards Islands”, “Tenkenas”, and “Ward’s Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Manhattan Psychiatric Center and East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad.
Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Hospital
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad
Bridge
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hell Gate Bridge is a railroad bridge in New York City. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands.
Icahn Stadium
Stadium
Icahn Stadium is a 5,000 seat track and field and multipurpose facility located on Randalls Island in Manhattan, New York City. Designed within the former site of Downing Stadium, it opened on April 23, 2005.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Harlem and Astoria.
East Harlem
Neighborhood
Photo: Diensthuber, CC BY 3.0.
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
Astoria
Neighborhood
Photo: Dinker022089, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
Port Morris
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Port Morris is a neighborhood geographically located in the southwest corner of the Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 1.
Wards Island
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Wards Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرتا راندال ووردز”
- Arabic: “جزيرتا راندالز ووردز”
- Catalan: “Randalls i Wards Island”
- Chinese: “Randalls岛”
- Chinese: “Randalls島”
- Chinese: “兰德尔岛”
- Chinese: “兰德尔斯岛和沃兹岛”
- Chinese: “蘭德爾島”
- Chinese: “蘭德爾與沃茲島”
- Dutch: “Randalls & Wards Islands”
- Dutch: “Randalls and Wards Islands”
- Estonian: “Randalls and Wards Islands”
- Hebrew: “איי וורד ורנדל”
- Slovenian: “otoka Randalls in Wards”
- Slovenian: “Randalls and Wards Islands”
- Spanish: “Islas Randalls y Wards”
- Spanish: “Randalls and Wards Islands”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Franklin Houses and Yorkville.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Manhattan Children’s Psychiatric Center and Wards Island Park.
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