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A prior attempt to link Brooklyn and Staten Island, using the Staten Island Tunnel, had commenced in 1923 but was canceled two years later. [2]: 135 [10] [11] That tunnel would have extended New York City Subway service from Brooklyn to Staten Island. [12] This proposal was also revived with the announcement of the Liberty Bridge.
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The Outerbridge Crossing, also known as the Outerbridge, is a cantilever bridge that spans the Arthur Kill between Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York.It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440, with the two roads connecting at the state border at the river’s center.
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City.It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay (of larger New York Bay) and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River flowing south from upstate New York and the New England regions, empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1888, subsequent to building the Arthur Kill swing bridge between New Jersey and northwestern Staten Island, [4] the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (the owners of the Staten Island Railway until 1971) proposed a tunnel between Staten Island and Brooklyn. [5] In 1890, Staten Island developer Erastus Wiman, who controlled the railway, sponsored a ...
The bridge was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1959 to replace the Arthur Kill Bridge, a swing bridge opened in 1890. [6] It contains a single track that is used mainly to carry garbage out of New York City, as well as to transport freight to destinations in western Staten Island. The bridge parallels the Goethals Bridge, which ...
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During the Civil War, Fort Hamilton's garrison expanded. A ship barrier across the Narrows assisted Fort Hamilton and its sister forts on Staten Island, now called Fort Wadsworth, in protecting the harbor against the possibility of Confederate raiders. The forts also provided troops to help put down the New York Draft Riots of 1863.