![]() ![]() In Manhattan, the Triborough Bridge starts in Harlem, which is fascinating check that review. The neighborhoods where the spans begin are all of interest it is advisable to walk here with the architectural guidebook AIA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, as each neighborhood has quite a bit to see. At the Little Hell Gate inlet (the only remaining section of the sound that once separated the 2 islands), don't cross the picturesque wooden bridge bear right, & you'll quickly come to the road on the island. On Wards Island, you can't walk straight east across the island, passing through the grounds of the gargantuan psychiatric hospital instead, turn north along the shore, through pleasant parkland, with fine views across to East Harlem. To get to this, walk east on 102nd Street to the end, cross a pedestrian bridge over FDR Drive, & the WI Bridge is just to the north. If headed from Manhattan to the Bronx, it's much simpler to cross on the adjacent Willis Avenue Bridge if going to Queens, the walk is a lot shorter crossing the shrill-green Wards Island Pedestrian Bridge (1951). If you're walking from Manhattan, the pedestrian access is at 125th Street & 2nd Avenue but there are better options than the Triborough Bridge. Well in Queens, the access is on Hoyt Avenue N & 27th Street. Close to the southern end of the island, you ascend to the bridge on a ramp the sidewalk here is on the eastern side, giving a magnificent view of the Long Island Sound, & parts of the Bronx & Queens, all through the dark-red span of the Hell Gate Bridge, which carries only trains. The bridge continues along the length of Randalls Island-Wards Island, but once on the island you must descend to the ground, again on steps, & walk on the road, with none too interesting scenery (the island is 1 1/2 mi/2 1/2 km long). The sidewalk is on the western side, providing good views to Midtown Manhattan, & Harlem. On the Bronx side, pedestrian access is at 133rd Street & Cypress Place you must climb many steps. ![]() This constitutes the only way for walkers to cross from the Bronx to Queens the 2 other bridges - the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge & the Throgs Neck Bridge - do not have pedestrian access (& only the B-W is served by buses). Kennedy Bridge - was built in 1936 to connect Manhattan, the Bronx & Queens the bridge's 3 spans all converge on Randalls Island-Wards Island (originally 2 islands, later connected with landfill) all 3 spans are open to pedestrians. The Triborough Bridge - officially the Robert F. Overall, it is not the best bridge in NYC but because it can connect three boroughs at once, it serves a purpose at least. On the Hell's Gate note, that is probably the best thing one can view on this bridge, the Hell's Gate rail bridge is parallel to the Queens leg of the bridge and it is a very impressive railroad bridge. To walk or ride a bike across the bridge is rather unpleasent as the midspan of the bridge has no guard cage to prevent people from falling off into the Hell's Gate. ![]() The bridges are not that impressive really, they are set up in a suspension manner but arent at the level architecturally a bridge like the Verrazano is, they dont provide a great view of the three boroughs they cross into, they charge a toll each way, and they can be at times confusing given they form a three way connection. Amongst NYC Bridges, this one now the RFK formerly the Triborough is misnamed, its more than one bridge but is named as one and it provides access to Randall's and Ward's Island after coming from the Three Boroughs the formulate the tri- part of its name-Manhattan, Bronx, and Queens. ![]()
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