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FDR Drive at full standstill in Lower Manhattan Friday 29 September 2023 15:38 , Oliver O'Connell View from Williamsburg bridge, FDR is at a full standstill, multiple cars trapped in oily waters.
Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly known as the FDR Drive, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park Underpass, and runs north along the East River to the 125th Street / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge interchange, where it becomes Harlem River Drive.
Traffic hit a standstill earlier in the day on a stretch of the FDR Drive, a major artery along Manhattan's east side. With water above cars’ tires, some drivers abandoned their vehicles.
Eastern portal at the FDR Drive in front of the Battery Maritime Building. The underpass started construction in 1949 [4] and opened to the public on April 10, 1951. [1] The underpass runs underneath the Battery, connecting the West Side Highway to the South Street Viaduct with two lanes of traffic in each direction. [1]
On the Manhattan side, the bridge funnels traffic into three locations: East 128th Street; the intersection of East 129th Street and Lexington Avenue; or FDR Drive in Manhattan. The bridge was formerly bidirectional, but converted to one-way operation southbound on August 5, 1941 on the same day the Willis Avenue Bridge was similarly converted ...
About two hours passed before the violent menace moved to 500 East 30th Street, near FDR Drive and The Water Club, where came across the 68-year-old man fishing in the East River, Kenny said.
The task force was assigned to study traffic on New York City's roadways and report its findings to Cuomo by December. [76] Fix NYC included congestion pricing advocates such as Sam Schwartz, Charles Komanoff , and Alex Matthiessen , who had supported the congestion-pricing proposal even after Bloomberg's plan had been defeated.
Harlem River Drive is a 4.20-mile (6.76 km) controlled-access parkway in the New York City borough of Manhattan.It runs along the west bank of the Harlem River from the Triborough Bridge in East Harlem to 10th Avenue in Inwood, where the parkway ends and the road continues northwest as Dyckman Street.