Robert F. Kennedy Bridge
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The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls a
Randalls and Wards Islands looking south, showing the RFK Bridge road complex, with the Hell Gate railroad bridge to the northeast (lower left)
The East River suspension bridge, pictured in 2022
The Harlem River lift bridge in 2007
Bronx Kill crossing in 2008
Randalls and Wards Islands
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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
Robert F. Kennedy Bridge
…of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls and Wards Islands, previously two islands and now joined by landfill. The RFK Bridge, a toll bridge, carries Interstate 278 (I-278) as well as the unsigned highway New…
Detail from NOAA Chart 12339 showing Negro Point
Little Hell Gate before being filled in
Looking west along Little Hell Gate Inlet, a remnant of the former Little Hell Gate strait between the two islands, in 2008