Randalls Island (also called
Randall's Island) and
Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called
Randalls and Wards Islands, in the
New York City borough of
Manhattan, separated from Manhattan by the
Harlem River, from
Queens by the
East River and
Hell Gate, and from the
Bronx by the
Bronx Kill. The two islands were formerly separate, with the channel between them, Little Hell Gate, being filled in by the early 1960s.