Willis Avenue Bridge
The Willis Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge that carries road traffic northbound over the Harlem River between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, United States.Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crack Is Wack Playground and Randalls Island.
Crack Is Wack Playground
Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crack Is Wack Playground is a park.
Randalls Island
Island
Photo: Chevy111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Third Avenue Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Third Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge that carries southbound road traffic on Third Avenue over the Harlem River, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. Third Avenue Bridge is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Willis Avenue Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mott Haven and Harlem.
Mott Haven
Neighborhood
Photo: Amolina196, Public domain.
Mott Haven is a primarily residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is generally bounded by East 149th Street to the north, the Bruckner Expressway to the east and south, and the Harlem River to the west, although these boundaries are not precise.
Harlem
Quarter
Photo: Momos, Public domain.
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street on the south.
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.
Willis Avenue Bridge
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge between New York and Bronx counties, New York state
- Categories: steel bridge, road bridge, truss bridge, and transportation
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.80341° or 40° 48′ 12″ northLongitude
-73.92888° or 73° 55′ 44″ westOpen location code
87G8R33C+9COpenStreetMap ID
way 576005107OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeGeoNames ID
7178516Wikidata ID
Q2581529
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Willis Avenue Bridge” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “威利斯大道橋”
- Dutch: “Willis Avenue Bridge”
- French: “Willis Avenue Bridge”
- German: “Willis Avenue Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר שדרת וויליס”
- Italian: “Ponte di Willis Avenue”
- Japanese: “ウィリス・アベニュー橋”
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