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The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (RFK Bridge; also known by its previous name, the Triborough Bridge) is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts [3] in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls and Wards Islands, previously two islands and now joined by landfill.
The brief portion of I-278 on the Grand Central Parkway, connecting the BQE and the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, had opened in the 1930s. [54] A part of the Brooklyn–Queens Connecting Highway, namely the Kosciuszko Bridge and the viaducts leading to the bridge, opened in 1939 between Meeker Avenue/Morgan Avenue and Queens Boulevard (NY 25). [55]
Officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge Hell Gate Bridge: 1916: 1,020 310: 3 rail tracks (2 of Northeast Corridor, 1 of New York Connecting Railroad) Rikers Island Bridge: 1966: 4,200.0 1,280.16: 2 lanes of roadway: Only connects Rikers Island to Queens Bronx–Whitestone Bridge: 1939: 3,770.0 1,149.10: 6 lanes of I-678 (Whitestone ...
Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, colloquially known by its previous name, the Triborough Bridge, is the agency's flagship crossing, and its original namesake. It connects Manhattan , the Bronx , and Queens , via Randalls and Wards Islands , and is named after the assassinated former United States Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy .
The Hell Gate Bridge's main span in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge's suspension span. When the Triborough (now RFK) Bridge nearby was first proposed in 1920, Lindenthal suggested that the Hell Gate Bridge's main span could be retrofitted with an upper deck for vehicular and pedestrian use, [155] a proposal that he repeated in 1924. [156]
Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. Twenty-five years later, when Johnson found herself in northern Ghana ...
The Grand Central Parkway was first proposed in 1922, as a scenic drive along the high ground of east-central Queens. [4] By the time construction began in 1931, it had been reconceived as extending northwestward to the Triborough Bridge, then in the planning stages, and connecting on the east with the Northern State Parkway, also in the planning stages, thereby among other things providing an ...
Kennedy Jr. worked as an environmental lawyer, filing lawsuits against polluters. He helped found a global green group that fought for clean water and helped defeat dam projects in Chile and Peru.