Harlem River

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The Harlem River is an estuary in New York City, USA, extending at an average width of 120 meters over 13 kilometers between East River and the Hudson River. The inlet Harlem River separates the island of Manhattan from the Bronx, the only one on the American mainland lying Borough of New York. A part of the present course of the estuary is the Harlem River Ship Canal, and the Spuyten Duyvil Creek running south of the former water bed, with the result that Marble Hill, is formerly a piece of Manhattan, today on the northern side of the estuary.

Two stretches of the Triborough Bridge ( Harlem River Lift, Bronx Kills Crossing ) are oriented to the south, the other eleven bridges spanning the Harlem River to the west to Manhattan. The banks of the Harlem River are partly designed as recreational areas and small parks, the water surface gives the otherwise little and eventful district a unique charm. The Rowing Club of Columbia University shall exercise regularly on the Harlem River, and on the Hudson and uses a dock near the 218th Street, between the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek to which the Hudson River connects the Harlem River.

Despite the name, the Harlem River is not a river.

The bridges over the Harlem River

  • Wards Iceland Bridge, also: 103rd Street Footbridge (1951 )
  • Harlem River lift bridge as a separate part of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (until November 2008: Triborough Bridge ) ( 1936)
  • Willis Avenue Bridge (1901 )
  • Third Avenue Bridge ( 1898)
  • Park Avenue Bridge ( Metro-North Railroad ) ( 1956)
  • Madison Avenue Bridge (1910 )
  • 145th Street Bridge ( 1905)
  • Macombs Dam Bridge ( 1895)
  • High Bridge, officially: Aqueduct Bridge ( Aqueduct ) ( 1842)
  • Alexander Hamilton Bridge ( I-95/US 1 ) ( 1963)
  • Washington Bridge ( 1888)
  • University Heights Bridge ( 1908)
  • Broadway Bridge, also: Harlem Ship Canal Bridge ( U.S. 9 with sub- Bahn No. 1-9 up) (1962 )
  • Henry Hudson Bridge (Henry Hudson Parkway / Route 9A) (1936 )
  • Sputyen Duyvil Bridge (Amtrak 's Empire Corridor ) ( 1900)
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