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6 unusual facts about East River


Brian Tobin

Later that month, Tobin conducted an international news conference from a barge on the East River outside the United Nations headquarters and dramatically displayed an illegal, under Canadian Law, trawl net that had allegedly been cut from a Spanish trawler which was arrested outside the Canadian EEZ, on international waters.

Captain America: Reborn

The two then take a stroll along the East River, where they discuss who will continue on as Captain America.

History of Pensacola, Florida

The Mexican savant also wrote detailed descriptions of waterways in the area and described abundant trees on Blackwater River and East River as "lofty and stout, suitable for building ships of any draft".

Lexent Metro Connect

The network includes four river crossings over the Hudson River, Harlem River and East River, and spans over 100 route miles of metro fiber.

Martin Connor

The 25th Senate District that he represented covers lower Manhattan and an area of Brooklyn down the East River from part of Greenpoint to Carroll Gardens, and eastward to part of Downtown Brooklyn.

Richard Nicolls

He made 74th Street, beginning at the East River, the southern border patent line (which was called the "Harlem Line") of the village of Nieuw Haarlem (later, the village of Harlem); the British also renamed the village "Lancaster".


23rd Street Ferry

23rd Street Ferry (Greenpoint), connecting East 23rd Street, Manhattan with Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint across the East River

23rd Street Ferry (Williamsburg), connecting East 23rd Street, Manhattan with Broadway, Williamsburg across the East River

Alf Hjort

Hjort's task was to oversee the planning and construction of the Pennsylvania Railroads Tunnels under the Hudson River, and the Long Island Railroad Tunnels under the East River.

BMT Broadway Line

The local tracks stretch the entire length between the two East River tunnels: the Montague Street Tunnel to the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn and the 60th Street Tunnel to the BMT Astoria Line and 60th Street Tunnel Connection in Queens.

Chinese Takeout

"Magnificent....Nersesian's story of a man on a search for authenticity won't leave you hungry....Nersesian is this generation's Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi."

Downing Stadium

Built on Randalls Island in the East River as a WPA project, 15,000 attendees witnessed Jesse Owens compete at Randall's Island Stadium in the Men's Olympic Trials on July 11, 1936, the opening night of the new facility.

Emily Barton

Brookland takes as its basis Thomas Pope’s "Rainbow Bridge", a bridge that was proposed for the East River nearly a hundred years before the construction of John Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge, but which was never actually built.

Harry Elionsky

With two men tied to him with thirty-five yards of heavy rope and his hands bound, and weighing 265 pounds, he swam through Hells Gate in the East River on November 14, 1916.

Peter Crerar

Today the Albion Mines Railway is commemorated by the “Samson Trail” following the route of the old railway from the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry along the East River towards Abercrombie.


see also

Baraipar

The village is situated on the east river bank of Rapti and South of Sarua Tal (lake).

Cooperative Village

The East River Housing Corporation was one of the first developments of the newly formed United Housing Foundation and was financially sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

East 34th Street Heliport

On June 17, 2005, a Sikorsky S-76C carrying six corporate executives from MBNA returning to Delaware after a business meeting in New York City crashed into the East River less than one minute after taking off from the East 34th Street Heliport.

Eden and John's East River String Band

Their debut Sweet East River (2006) features special guests Sophie Crumb (who also provided the cover artwork) on banjolin, Alec Morton from Raging Slab on bass, Jim Stout on banjo and Sam Hopkins on bottleneck guitar.

Frank Braynard

Braynard was also one of the creators of South Street Seaport, a complex of shops and urban amenities built in several blocks of old waterfront buildings on the East River in New York City.

German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark

In 1904, The Ladies' Aid Society (Frauenhilfsverein) chartered the General Slocum steamboat for their summer outing on the East River.

Interstate 78 in New York

There it would follow the Nassau Expressway along the north boundary of the airport and turn north along the Clearview Expressway through Queens, crossing the East River again on the Throgs Neck Bridge into the Bronx.

Kongfrontation

Rounding a bend and nearing the East River, the tram encountered Kong hanging from the Queensboro Bridge.

South Street

South Street Seaport, a shopping complex overlooking the East River in Manhattan Island.

The Footprints on the Ceiling

Harte and Merlini are soon swept up into a complex and bizarre plot involving the death of Linda Skelton, an agoraphobic heiress, at her home on Skelton Island, a tiny island in the East River of New York City.