Main features:

• Find out about Hell Gate’s ship-swallowing whirlpool and the fate of the HMS Hussar

• Learn about the foiled Nazi plot to blow up Hell Gate Bridge

• Discover the passage of the Hell Gate islands from private properties to a fortress of psychiatric and detention facilities

• Hear about the Hell Gate Explosions and the General Slocum Disaster

• Peer at the jail complex of Rikers Island, the quarantine ruins of North Brother Island (once the home of Typhoid Mary), and the former pirate island of Mill Rock