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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wards Island and Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
Wards Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
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.
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, 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
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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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