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	NYCDOT - Wards Island Bridge Over Harlem River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wards Island Bridge is a pedestrian bridge connecting the East River Housing Project at East 103rd Street in Manhattan to Wards Island.
		The clear width of the Manhattan approach ramp is 3.66m and the clear width of the Wards Island approach ramp measures about 3.76m.
		The first known bridge to Wards Island (formerly Great Barn Island) was built in 1807 with the money of two private citizens, Philip Milledolar and Bartholomew Ward, to aid their cotton business on the small island.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/bridges/bridges/wards.html (206 words)

	City of Toronto: Toronto Island Park
		High lake levels continually damaged island properties and, on January 1, 1956, the City of Toronto transferred responsibility for the Toronto Islands to The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (Metro) to be developed as a regional park.
		After the islands were transferred from the federal government to the City of Toronto in 1867, Plan D-141 divided the land into lots and allowed cottages, amusement areas and resort hotels to be built.
		Ward's Island, actually the east section of the old peninsula, was named after the Ward family who first settled here about 1830.
	www.toronto.ca /parks/island (1318 words)

	NEW YORK (CITY) - LoveToKnow Article on NEW YORK (CITY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Upon its first occupation by the Dutch the island was rough and rocky with brooks, ponds, marshes and several expenses for important harbour irilprovements, principally dredging~ were $1,035,300 for New York, $2,710,000 (exclusive of $I,f85,00c for the Delaware Breakwater) for Philadelphia, $1,501,169 for Boston, $1,404,845 for New Orleans, and $470,000 for Baltimore.
		Coney Island (q.v.), similar resorts on Staten Island, on the shores of the North river and on Long Island on the Sound, and on the Hudson river are popular amusement places.
		Communicalions.The physical limitations of Manhattan Island and particularly the circumstance that the business area of the city is small and that the movement of passengers is almost entirely in one direction at any~ one time, have hindered the development of a simple and adequate system of local communications.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_YORK_CITY_.htm (15430 words)

	Ward's Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An island of 235 acres (103 hectares) at the northern end of the East River, it is legally part of Manhattan.
		After the island was acquired by the city in 1855 it was used successively for a potter's field, a hospital for destitute immigrants, an auxiliary immigration station, and the City Asylum (an early mental institution).
		Ward's Island is connected by a landfill to Randall's Island and is traversed by the Triborough Bridge and the Hell Gate Bridge.
	www.firehydrant.org /pictures/nyc5.html (253 words)

	Sign Information
		Ward’s Island Park is located on Ward’s Island, a 255-acre landmass lying in the northern end of the East River, between Manhattan and Queens.
		Though houses had already been constructed on the island as early as the 17th century, the Wards made settlement on the island more attractive by opening a cotton mill and building the first bridge crossing the East River (connecting the island with Manhattan at 114th Street) in 1807.
		However, the project that eventually altered the landscape of Ward’s Island forever was the construction of the Triborough Bridge.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12869 (760 words)

	VAI: Randall's Island - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Randall's and Wards Island were originally three separate islands until landfill from construction debris gave it its present form.
		Wards Island was purchased from the Indians in 1637 by the Dutch and sold later as farmland to the eponymous Ward brothers.
		In 1930, the Metropolitan Conference on Parks recommended that both Randall's and Wards Islands be cleared of all institutions and used solely for recreational activities.
	www.vanalen.org /workshops/east_river/sites/his09.htm (306 words)

	Wards Island . Mill Rock Park, between Wards Island and Manhattan (sorabji.com)
		Seldom inhabited, the islands held great allure for the military, starting in the War of 1812, when a blockhouse was erected on Great Mill Rock as part of the defense of New York Harbor.
		The island was acquired by the city's Parks Department in 1953, its buildings demolished and trees planted.
		Though the island was used for cultural events through the 1960's, it has since been allowed to return to its natural state.
	www.sorabji.com /_/Wards_Island/DSCN7472 (316 words)

	Wards Island Immigrant Station, New York
		Ward Island was the home of the New York State facilities for the detention and treatment of destitute or sick arriving immigrants.
		View of Verplanck State Emigrant Hospital, Ward's Island, New York Harbor, from the Annual Report of the [New York] Commissioners of Emigration, 1871-72.
		View of Ward's Island, New York Harbor, including the Female Refuge (or Male Barracks?), the Old Lunatic Asylum, rear of the Nursery Building, and the New Lunatic Asylum in the distance, from the Annual Report of the [New York] Commissioners of Emigration, 1871-72.
	www.theshipslist.com /pictures/wards.htm (212 words)

	NYCSK8: Where to Skate: East River Islands
		On the east side of the island, by the bridge to Queens, there is a set of steps of just about the right number and steepness for stair newbies to practice bashing.
		In a sense, Wards/Randalls Island is a big park with a few large facilities plopped just south of the halfway point, including the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a wastewater plant, and a firemen's training school.
		Occupying the north half of the island is Randalls Island Park; curving around the south edge is Wards Island Park.
	www.skatecity.com /nyc/where/eastriver.html (717 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - A Wards-winning team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A project to transform the scruffy western shore of Wards Island on the Harlem River into a pathway for walkers, bikers and in-line skaters is getting a $1.15 million boost from the City Council.
		The capital budget grant from the Council matches a state grant, and the combined $2.3million in funds will be used to build the Wards Island Waterfront Pathway.
		Officials of the Randalls and Wards Island Park said they hope to complete the mile-long pathway by the end of next year.
	www.nydailynews.com /07-14-2003/boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/100488p-90864c.html (390 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Local News - Town Council prepares for wards' redistricting 04/19/01
		The population in Ward 5, which covers roughly the southern two-thirds of Sea Pines Plantation, dropped 16 percent.
		Ward 3 saw a 13 percent gain and Ward 4 a 24 percent gain.
		All options would give less than a 10 percent variance from a perfect average of 5,644 residents per ward, which Cousins said is the redistricting requirement for fair representation.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/041901/LOCfrank.shtml (318 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Safety Zone: New York Harbor, Western Long Island Sound, East and Hudson Rivers Fireworks.
		The proposed safety zone prevents vessels from transiting a portion of western Long Island Sound and is needed to protect boaters from the hazards associated with fireworks launched from a barge in the area.
		The proposed safety zone prevents vessels from transiting a portion of western Long Island Sound and is needed to protect boaters from the hazards associated with fireworks launched from shore in the area.
		The proposed safety zone at Wards Island includes all waters of the East River within a 150-yard radius of the fireworks land shoot in approximate position 40 deg.46'55.5" N 073 deg.55'33" W (NAD 1983), about 200 yards northeast of the Triboro Bridge.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/May/Day-11/i11873.htm (6494 words)

	Randall's Island Sports Foundation \| Corporate Volunteer Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Randall's Island Park is located under the Triborough Bridge in the East River, between Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens.
		Stay left for the exit to Randall's and Wards Island, immediately after the toll plaza.
		On the Bridge, stay left for the exit to Randall's and Wards Island, immediately after the toll plaza.
	www.risf.org /direction2.html (326 words)

	Chaplain Chapin's Cards
		The Rev. Oliver Chapin served on Roosevelt Island as the Episcopal minister at Coler Memorial Hospital and as Vicar of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd from 1965 until his passing in 1999.
		One postcard refers to "Blackwell's Island, New York;" the other, to "Welfare Island, N.Y." The change on April 12, 1921 took place because the old name had become identified with such negatives as crime, corruption and cruel conditions and the new name sounded more benevolent.
		The island's first nursing school was at Charity Hospital, in the former Smallpox Hospital.
	www.correctionhistory.org /rooseveltisland/html/chapincards.html (948 words)

	Newsletter
		Randall's & Wards Island Park is located in the East River below the Triborough Bridge, between East Harlem in Manhattan, the South Bronx, and Astoria, Queens.
		In their earliest days, Randall's & Wards Islands were home to farms, light industry, and institutional services.
		The island was host to memorable events that attracted sizable crowds, including concerts by the legendary Duke Ellington, Jesse Owens's dazzling victory in the 1936 Olympic 100-yard dash trials, and Pele's 1975 American debut.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=9565 (616 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Facility Name: Wards Island Water Pollution Control Plant New York, NY 10035 Parent Company: New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection RMP Facility ID: 100000124082 Submission Receipt Date: 06/22/1999 This facility deregistered itself from the RMP database (reported that it no longer meets the reporting criteria) as of 06/23/2004, effective as of 06/23/2004.
		RMP Executive Summary below: Introduction The Ward's Island Water Pollution Control Plant is one of the 14 facilities operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) which treats the City's wastewater.
		At Wards Island all of the digester gas is sent offsite to the neighboring State Hospital boiler plant.
	www.rtk.net /rmp/sum7/NY/fac100000124082 (909 words)

	11 Randall’s Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Randall’s and Wards Island Park is a 480-acre island in the East River, bumped up against the South Bronx, with Astoria, Queens to the east and East Harlem to the west.
		A true island, pedestrian access is via a footbridge from 103rd Street in Manhattan (open end of March through end of October) and via pedestrian paths along the three spans of the Triborough Bridge.
		The new Wards Island Pathway will also connect to the Park’s central spine, where the roadbed has been reconstructed to provide lighting, signage and benches and to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists.
	www.nylcv.org /Programs/WPC/blueprint/boroughs/manhattan/pages/11_randalls (939 words)

	NYC Department of Environmental Protection - Ruling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As advertised in the public notice, a legislative hearing was convened on September 17, 2003, and an issues conference was convened on September 18, 2003.
		Hypoxia is a common occurrence in Long Island Sound bottom waters during the late summer, and is linked to an overabundance of nitrogen combined with the naturally occurring density stratification of the water column.
		The City requests that the Long Island Sound approved nitrogen trading ratio should be in effect for the duration of the permits and should be used to determine compliance with effluent limits in the permits.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/ohms/decis/nycdepspdesr.html (4439 words)

	Samuel Greenberg: Biographical Sketch
		Wards Island in 1917, when he was only 23.
		Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island in East River.
		Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island for the second time.
	www.logopoeia.com /greenberg/bio.html (808 words)

	mar99min (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While it was generally acknowledged that once people went to Ward's island and realized how easy it is to get there and how beautiful the fields are to play on, that they would willingly go.
		However, there was a difference of opinion about which divisions would be hardest to convince to give the field a try and how the use of the field should be divided up.
		A mailing was approved to all of the players who would potentially be playing on Ward's island explaining its benefits and trying to allay the fears of parents who are concerned about playing there.
	www.wssl.org /minutes/mar99min.htm (859 words)

	Randall's Island Sports Foundation \| Projects \| Management, Restoration & Development Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Using reclaimed shoreline parkland, the Wards Island Waterfront Pathway will create roughly a mile of pedestrian and bicycle trails along the western shoreline of Randall's Island Park, adjacent to and accessible from City neighborhoods notably lacking in parkland and safe, open spaces.
		The pathway, design of which was funded through a DOT CMAQ/TEA-21 grant with a match from Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, will be constructed in 2005 to run along the western shore of the Island to link the 103rd Street footbridge to the south with the Inlet.
		The new Wards Island Waterfront Pathway will also connect to the Park's central spine, where the roadbed has just been reconstructed to provide lighting, signage and benches and to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists.
	www.risf.org /projects_circ.html (376 words)

	Triborough Bridge
		The bridge's three branches meet on Randall's Island, where an interchange and two toll plazas sort out traffic flowing in 12 directions and provide access to the island itself.
		Randall's Island is largely city parkland; that includes Downing Stadium, softball fields, tennis courts, picnic areas, and some city facilities.
		In 1951, the TBTA constructed and gave to the city a pedestrian bridge between 103rd Street in Manhattan and Wards Island, providing another access by foot to Randall's Island and Wards Island.
	www.mta.nyc.ny.us /bandt/html/triboro.htm (242 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Wards Island Bridge
		February 15th, 2004 09:56 PM The Wards Island Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the Harlem River connecting the East River Housing Project at East 103rd Street in Manhattan to Wards Island.
		Notice that the lift span is raised - the bridge is closed until spring.
		May 9th, 2004 02:22 PM Ward's Island and its Bridges
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=4036 (317 words)

	NYCHS presents Neil Tandon and Roosevelt Island Historical Society's Historical Walk -- Octagon Tower
		When the facility opened in 1839, it was a much-needed relief to the overcrowded wards of Bellevue Hospital.
		Until 1850 most of its staff were inmates from the Blackwell's Island Penitentiary.
		With the reforms that followed her reports, the Asylum facility was deemed insufficient, and in 1894 patients were transferred to a new Wards Island facility.
	www.correctionhistory.org /rooseveltisland/html/rooseveltislandtour_octagon.html (523 words)

	USATF - Events - 2005 USATF National Club Track & Field Championships
		Icahn Stadium is located on Randall's Island at 1 Randall's Island, New York, NY 10035
		Stay on the right side of the highway for the exit to Randall's and Wards Island.
		Once on the bridge, stay left for the exit to Randall's and Wards Island.
	www.usatf.org /events/2005/USATFClubTFChampionships/athleteInfo/travel.asp (616 words)

	Diary of a Keyboard Activist: Mill Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wards Island is connected by landfill, and not ironically, the Department of Sanitation, to Randalls Island.
		It's hard to see the familiar NYC landmarks, until you're on the side of the lower part of Wards Island that faces Queens.
		And so, S and I wandered around Wards Island a bit, but not before sitting along the water and looking over to Queens and seeing how the churning waters make little flecks of gold light when the sun hits it.
	www.panix.com /~sethbook/shepard/000513.html (762 words)

	Little Steven Message Board - Randalls Island Transportation and Parking Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Special X80 event buses will leave for Randall’s Island from Lexington Avenue and East 125th Street, easily accessible via the Lexington Avenue #4, 5 and 6 Subway and from the Metro North 125th Street Station.
		Randall’s Island Park is located under and accessible via the Triborough Bridge in the East River, between Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens.
		i was at randalls island last week and the event staff (warped tour) knew nothing about where it is or how to get it.
	www.littlesteven.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1021&goto=nextoldest (645 words)

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