New York Bay and Harbor and the Environs
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Pot Rock and Way's Reef, Hell Gate
New York Bay and Harbor
Approaches to New York
New York Harbor, Upper Bay and Narrows
Harlem River Nautical
New York Harbor Nautical
Hudson and East Rivers
New York City Electronic Navigational Chart
Harlem River
This nautical chart, published in 1958, depicts approaches to New York City via the Harlem River. The chart is the last chart to include two famous baseball stadiums: the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium.
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This nautical chart contains an array of features to help mariners safely navigate the Harlem River. The chart includes tidal information for select areas and indicates the location of lights, buoys, river bottom characteristics (materials), shipwrecks, and dangerous rocks. The chart also includes bridge clearances—to help mariners avoid mishaps by going under a bridge that was too low to clear their ships.
Published in 1958, the chart is the 14th edition of a chart that was originally published in 1939.
Historical Reference
From 1911 to 1964, the Polo Grounds was home to three Major League Baseball teams in New York City. The New York Giants played at the Grounds for 46 years—from its opening in 1911, until the Giants left for California in 1957. The New York Yankees shared space with the Giants for the first 11 of years of the stadium; Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx in 1923. Finally, the New York Mets played two seasons, 1962 and 1963, in Polo Grounds as they waited for Shea Stadium to be completed in Queens. The final game ever played at Polo Grounds was on September 18, 1963. Alone and abandoned, Polo Grounds was torn down in 1964.
This nautical chart, published in 1958, is the last edition where both the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, which were on opposite sides of the Harlem River, are depicted on the same chart. You can find both stadiums at approximately 40°50'N, 73°55'W.- Chart title: Harlem River
- Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Contributors: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (revisions and additions)
- Year published: 1958
- Scale: 1:10,000
- Material: Paper
- Printing technology: Photolithography
- Hydrographic survey technology: Single-beam ecosounder
Related Web Sites
Office of Coast Survey: Historical
Map and Chart Collection
Works Consulted
Ballparks of Baseball. (2006). Polo Grounds. Retrieved June 20, 2006, from: http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/PoloGrounds.htm.
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