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The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company , the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m).
1947 New York City smallpox outbreak: disease 2 [172] 1929 1929 Yankee Stadium stampede: mass unrest 2 [173] 1835 Great Fire of New York: fire 2 [174] 2020 2020 New York City Subway fire: rail 1 [175] 2019 2019 New York City helicopter crash aircraft 1 [176] 2007 2007 New York City steam explosion: explosion 1 [163] 1995 Williamsburg Bridge ...
Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains: Double-decker bridge with 5 westbound lanes and 2 eastbound lanes. 3 of the westbound lanes and the subway are below the other 4 lanes. Williamsburg Bridge: 1903: 7,308.0 2,227.48
The New York City Police Department has advised the following streets are still closed after this morning’s crane fire and collapse. 10 Avenue - CLOSED between West 39 Street- West 42 Street
On June 5, 1995, at 6:18 a.m. , a New York City Subway J train crashed into the back of a stopped M train on the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City. The motorman of the J train, 46-year-old Layton Gibson, died upon impact and 54 passengers were injured.
Thomas Hoepker: View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 (2001) View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 is a color photograph by German photographer Thomas Hoepker . It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of ...
The derailment was the first accident involving passenger fatalities in Metro-North's 30-year history, [43] and its first accident in New York involving any fatalities since a 1988 collision in Mount Vernon that killed one crew member. [44] It was the deadliest train accident within New York City since a 1991 subway derailment in Manhattan. [45]
This was the first accident investigated by the newly-formed U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which blamed the New York City 72nd Street tower operator for failing to restrict the movement of the northbound train, along with other contributing dispatcher and operator errors. [2] [3]