Wards Island Bridge
bridge in Manhattan, New York
Facts
13 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- vertical-lift bridge, bicycle bridge[4]
- Inception
- May 18, 1951[8]
- Native label
- Wards Island Bridge[11]
Location
- Country
- United States[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 40.786°, -73.937°[9]
Population and size
- Height
- 16.6[12]
More facts +5
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 40.786°, -73.937°
- Crosses
- Harlem River[6]
- Date of official opening
- May 18, 1951[10]
- Maintained by
- New York City Department of Transportation[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ward's Island Bridge
en Wards Island Bridge
he גשר וורדס איילנד
ja ワーズ・アイランド・ブリッジ
ja ワーズ・アイランド橋
ru Мост острова Уордс
🔖 Identifiers · 5
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Weeks 533 under Wards Is Bridge jeh.jpg ↗
- Freebase ID
- /m/0b_x9q
- GNIS Feature ID
- 2419929
- GeoNames ID
- 7178514
- Structurae structure ID
- 20003494
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Summary
Wards Island Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge[1].