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With a cost of $80 million (equivalent to $804 million in 2023 [26]), the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was also dubbed the most expensive tunnel in the United States. [192] It was expensive enough that the TBTA had been forced to look around the world for a company that could cover the tunnel's $33.5-million (equivalent to $337 million in 2023 ...
[31] [32] Moses had proposed a third bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, on the site of what is now the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. [33] [34] The United States Department of War ultimately rejected the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge as an impediment to shipping, since it would obstruct access from the New York Harbor to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [35] [36]
Each of its tubes were designed 1.5 feet (0.46 m) wider than the Holland Tunnel in order to accommodate the wider cars of the period. When the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel opened in 1950, it was the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America, a title it still holds. [16]
Large trucks and tour buses will pay a congestion charge of $21.60 alongside any bridge or tunnel costs during peak periods, defined as 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends.
A majority of the MTA board voted in favor of New York City congestion pricing, green-lighting the controversial plan to charge cars $15 to enter Manhattan.
The Joralemon Street Tunnel (/ dʒ ə ˈ r æ l ɛ m ə n /, ju-RAL-e-mun), originally the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 and 5 trains) of the New York City Subway under the East River between Bowling Green Park in Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York City.
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[14] [23] The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel connecting Manhattan's Battery Park to Brooklyn was completed in 1950. [24] By 1960, an extension of the West Side Elevated Highway south to the Manhattan tunnel portal became part of NY 27A, [25] which had ended in Brooklyn prior to the construction of the tunnel. [26]