* September 30 – The first televised college football game, Fordham vs Waynesburg College, at Randall's Island, New York.

Spanning the Harlem River, the Bronx Kill, and the Hell Gate ( part of the East River ), the bridges connect the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and The Bronx via Randall's Island and Wards Island, which are joined by landfill.

Motorists were first able to pay with E-ZPass in lanes for automatic coin machines at the Randall's Island toll plazas on August 21, 1996.

The return trip from Randall's Island to any borough is free.

* Span crosses the Bronx Kill between The Bronx and Randall's Island

The department has its headquarters in 9 MetroTech Center, Downtown Brooklyn, and its training academy ( The FDNY Fire Academy ) on Randall's Island.

The Hell Gate Bridge ( originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or The East River Arch Bridge ) is a steel through arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens, Randall's / Wards Island ( which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan ), and The Bronx in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.

Headquarters on Randall's Island

The 2007 Concert took place at Randall's Island in New York City ( the first Farm Aid in New York ) and was recorded in High Definition to be broadcast on HDNet as a 2 Hour Special highlighting many of the performances from the Allman Brothers and Counting Crows to John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson.

It separates Astoria, Queens from Randall's Island / Wards Island ( formerly two separate islands that are now joined by landfill ).

The Bronx Kill is a narrow strait in New York City delineating the southernmost extent of the Bronx and separating it from Randall's Island.

However, much of the Bronx Kill was later filled in to expand the parkland on Randall's Island.

There is also low clearance above the electrical conduits that supply power to Randall's Island.

In 2001, the New York Power Authority offered to construct a pedestrian bridge linking the Bronx with Randall's Island — part of the agency's remuneration to the community for building two new power plants in the South Bronx.

A 2006 plan for a water park -- the first in the nation for a large city — on the northwest corner of Randall's Island was controversial.

Examples are Kill Van Kull and Arthur Kill, both separating Staten Island, New York from New Jersey, Dutch Kills and English Kills off Newtown Creek, Bronx Kill between The Bronx and Randall's Island, and used as a composite name, Wallkill River in New York and New Jersey and the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.

* Randall's Island, part of New York City

The Stars had only two other options in the city proper: Downing Stadium, a 22, 000-seat facility built during the Depression as a WPA Project on Randall's Island near the East River, or Baker Field, the 32, 000-seat wooden stadium that served as the home of Columbia University's teams.

Part of the problem was that they were playing nowhere near Brooklyn: their home games were at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island.

He was president of the New York Pathological and Obstetrical Societies, and twice of the Medical Society of the County of New York, visiting physician to the German Hospital beginning 1857, to Mount Sinai Hospital beginning 1860, to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the infant hospital on Randall's Island beginning 1868, and to Bellevue Hospital beginning 1874.

Part of Smith's performance at what is considered the first outdoor jazz festival, the 1938 Carnival of Swing on Randall's Island, turned up unexpectedly on audio engineer William Savory ’ s discs, which were self-recorded off the radio at the time, then long-sequestered.

* July 31 New York, NY Randall's Island

The two islands together are run by the Randall's Island Sports Foundation under a partnership agreement with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Randall's, the department store, was built in the Art Deco style

Randall's original plan for Rosalind Franklin was that she do X-ray diffraction studies on proteins.

The design was changed to smooth concrete to soothe concerns that asylum inmates on Wards and Randall's islands would climb the piers to escape.

The rest of the band's material was released on Chris Randall's Positron!

The production was an effort to raise money to support Randall's National Actors Theatre.

Randall's book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times ' 100 notable books of 2005.

The press stated that Chavez was not one hundred per cent of his capacities, claiming a supposed drug use and alcoholism by the Mexican legend, Randall's victory was discredited on numerous occasions.

The loss to Carr was the end of Randall's time as a contender, but he's continued to fight with mixed results over the years since.

After Rothman's father Abe — a chauffeur who sometimes drove for The Mike Douglas Show — was able to pass a spec script of theirs to Tony Randall, the two got a try-out writing gig on Randall's hit TV show The Odd Couple.

In 1934, when the Triborough was built, the span between Randall's Island and Manhattan was the largest vertical-lift bridge in the world.

It was Jennie Cary who put the words of James Ryder Randall's poem " Maryland, My Maryland " to the German folk song " Lauriger Hortius ", thereby creating what would become the state song of Maryland.

Randall's next publication was Cities Burning ( 1968 ), a group of thirteen poems, in response to a riot in Detroit.

The opening of the sailor's home was delayed by extended contests of the will by Randall's disappointed heirs.

In 2006 the original walkway of the Triborough Bridge Queens leg, alighting in Randall's Island, was demolished and a shorter, wider and less steep one built to connect to Wards Island.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated, " The Retford imp was, and still is, one of the most fondly admired figures in the game ... the rolling gait and big sad eyes make him Chaplinesque – and like all clowns, there is pathos behind the public image ... At times, genius sat on Randall's shoulders – the only trouble was it would not stop fidgeting ".

Tracks from the EP and subsequent third album received airplay on Little Steven's Underground Garage Program on Sirius Satellite Radio ; the band was featured at Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival on Randall's Island, New York along with other ' garage rock ' luminaries and legends The Stooges, The Strokes, The New York Dolls, The Zombies and others.

The company was acquired by the Randall's Food Markets chain of Houston in 1992 and adopted a logo similar to Randall's, but retained the Tom Thumb name.

Corporal Goebbels goes to Doyle and Randall's position to check on their ammunition supply, and is greeted with a " Heil!

The names of Unger's children on The Odd Couple were Edna and Leonard, named after Randall's sister and Randall himself.

Judge Dalby Shirley's scorecard reflected this as his scorecard read 76-75 for Chavez ; since judge Ray Solis had Chavez winning by a 77-74 margin on his card and judge Tamotsu Tomihara had the fight 76-75 in Randall's favor, a technical split draw would have been the result had Randall not lost that point.

The Lion rampant represents the same on the wall of the Randall's Hotel ( variously known as " Alf's " and the " Pig and Whistle "), popular and most proximate watering hole for generations of students.

Derek Randall's century in England's second innings took them to 358, and Australia reached 73 at the close of play on the final day for the loss of two wickets, both of which were taken by Willis, leaving the match drawn.

He directed A Little Family Business on Broadway in 1982, which starred Angela Lansbury and John McMartin, and Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in The Flowering Peach for Tony Randall's National Theatre, on Broadway.

The second two days ( Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 ) of the Governor's Island caravan stop were cancelled due to Hurricane Irene, and Dispatch agreed to play the rescheduled Caravan on Randall's Island, also in New York, NY.