The Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge, is a bridge crossing the Harlem River between Manhattan Island and Wards Island in the Manhattan borough of New York City that does not allow vehicular traffic. The vertical lift bridge has a total of twelve spans consisting of steel towers and girders. It carries only pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
Open to allow Weeks 533 to pass underneath, 2010
View from Manhattan-side ramp, 2007
Wards Island Bridge with the lift lowered to allow pedestrian crossing, 2006
Image: Wards Island Bridge, Shared Use Sign
The Harlem River is an 8-mile (13 km) tidal strait in New York, United States, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the New York mainland.
The Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and High Bridges over the Harlem River
The "C" Rock, with the Henry Hudson Bridge behind it and the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge in the distance in the open position.
1901 Bridge
2010 Bridge