Wards Island Park
Wards Island Park is a park in Manhattan, New York. Wards Island Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood East Harlem, as well as near Astoria.Places of Interest
Highlights include Manhattan Psychiatric Center and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center.
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.
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center
Hospital
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on Wards Island in New York City, operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony 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.
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 Park
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.78615° or 40° 47′ 10″ northLongitude
-73.92963° or 73° 55′ 47″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87G8Q3PC+F4OpenStreetMap ID
way 108236534OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Slovenian—“Wards Island Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wards Island Park”
- Slovenian: “Wards Island Park”
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