Wards Island Bridge

The Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge, is a bridge crossing the between and Wards Island in the borough of that does not allow vehicular traffic.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: bridge in Manhattan, New York
  • Also known as: “103rd Street Footbridge” and “Ward’s Island Bridge”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The , often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 between 88th and 89th Streets on the of in New York City. is situated 1¼ miles west of Wards Island Bridge.

Hospital
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Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. It is located on the of in New York City, on the eastern border of , stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. is situated 1 mile west of Wards Island Bridge.

Hospital
is a maximum-security facility for the mentally ill on in , operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as one of two psychiatric hospitals in the state that treat felony patients. is situated 1,400 feet east of Wards Island Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Harlem and Astoria.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of in , north of the and bounded by 96th Street to the south, to the west, and the and to the east and north.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of . is bounded by the and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, to the southeast, and and to the east.

Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

Wards Island Bridge

Latitude
40.78608° or 40° 47′ 10″ north
Longitude
-73.93714° or 73° 56′ 14″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
87G8Q3P7+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 859118861
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Geo­Names ID
7178514
Wiki­data ID
Q975801
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Slovenian—“Wards Island Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ուորդս կղզու կամուրջ”
  • Hebrew: “גשר וורדס איילנד”
  • Japanese: “ワーズ・アイランド・ブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ワーズ・アイランド橋”
  • Russian: “Мост острова Уордс”
  • Russian: “Мост Острова Уордс”
  • Slovenian: “Wards Island Bridge”

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