An airplane view of two East River bridges

The Hell Gate and Triborough Bridges—spanking-new and gleaming in this technical postcard—connect Astoria to Ward’s and Randall’s Islands. The islands are two separate entities here, but they’ve long since been united into one island via landfill.

It’s a strange view: Manhattan and the Bronx look like pastoral, barely populated villages. Astoria, on the other hand, comes off as an industrial wasteland.

The Triborough Bridge was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in 2008. I hope they don’t rename the Hell Gate; it’s too colorful a name to lose.

Tags: Astoria, East River bridges, Hell Gate Bridge, New York City bridges, Queens, Randall's Island, Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, Triborough Bridge, Ward's Island

This entry was posted on April 10, 2009 at 5:25 am and is filed under Bronx and City Island, Queens, Transit, Upper East Side. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “An airplane view of two East River bridges”

AstoriaGuy Says:
March 6, 2021 at 12:38 pm | Reply
See construction of this Triborough span in NY Public Library Collection
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-92fa-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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