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The George Clinton Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge is a continuous under-deck truss toll bridge that carries NY 199 across the Hudson River in New York State north of the City of Kingston and the hamlet of Rhinecliff. It was opened to traffic on February 2, 1957, as a two-lane (one in each direction) bridge, although it was not actually complete.
New York State Route 199 (NY 199) is a 30.91-mile-long (49.74 km) state highway located in the Hudson Valley of the U.S. state of New York.Its western end is in Ulster County, where it begins as the continuation of the short U.S. Route 209 freeway east of its interchange with U.S. Route 9W; after crossing the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge over the Hudson River the rest of the highway crosses ...
New York Tappan Zee Bridge: ... Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge: NY 199: Ulster – Rhinebeck: 1957 ... Green Island Bridge: Green Island – Troy: 1981
[10]: 12 Kingston ferry service ended in January 1957, shortly before the opening of the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge. [34] The railroad sold the Shatzell Avenue footbridge to the town in 1958. [4] [35] The New York Central began removing tracks from the main line in the 1950s as traffic decreased. Only three tracks were in use at Rhinecliff by ...
Life Along the Hudson (New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2018). Jane Garmey. Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley (New York, NY: Monacelli Press, 2013). Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with a preface by Mark Rockefeller. Great Houses of the Hudson River (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001).
U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the states of New Jersey and New York.It begins in Fort Lee, New Jersey, as Fletcher Avenue crosses the US 1/9, US 46, and Interstate 95 (I-95) approaches to the George Washington Bridge, and heads north up the west side of the Hudson River to US 9 in Albany, New York.
It is directly across the Hudson River from the city of Kingston. The closest river crossing is the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge (New York State Route 199), 4 miles (6 km) to the north. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Rhinecliff CDP has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km 2), or 1.37%, is ...
The Bear Mountain Bridge, originally built by a private venture in 1924, was sold to the Authority in 1940. The Authority dedicated the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge in 1957, the first span of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in 1963 and the second span in 1980. The Bridge Authority charges an auto cash toll of $1.75 for eastbound traffic on all five ...