Aerial view of the
Triborough Bridge, late
1930s, from the sky over Manhattan, looking east. Queens is in the upper
right, with the bridge joining Grand Central Parkway; the curving part of
the bridge (alongside Hell Gate railroad bridge) is on Ward's Island,
just right of Randall's Island (the two are now joined). At the far left
the bridge forks to the Bronx (extreme center left) over the Bronx Kill to
East 134th Street and to Manhattan (towards the lower left corner of the
photo) at East 125th Street. Hell Gate is the channel between Ward's Island
and Queens. The islands at upper left are South and North Brother Island
and, behind them, Rikers Island. Photo:
Short and Brown, Public Buildings (1939).