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The Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [2] 1903, [3] 1931, [4] and 1964 [5] respectively. There are 789 bridges and tunnels in New York.
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Hudson River, from its mouth at the Upper New York Bay upstream to its cartographic beginning at Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York. This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Wootton Bridge is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward with about 3,000 residents on the Isle of Wight, first recorded around the year 1086. [2] The parish also contains the settlement of Wootton.
The New York State Thruway portion of I-287 was planned around 1950 as part of a tolled limited-access highway that was to connect the major cities of New York. [29] [30] A bridge across the Hudson River was planned between Nyack and Tarrytown at a site that was close enough to New York City but far enough from the Port Authority of New York ...
This is a list of covered bridges in New York State. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation identifies 29 covered bridges in New York State as historic, but these are not all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [citation needed] The New York Society of Covered Bridges lists 24 historic covered ...
The Kosciuszko Bridge (/ ˌ k ɒ z i ˈ ʊ s k oʊ, ˌ k ɒ ʒ i ˈ ʊ ʃ k oʊ / KOZ-ee-UUSK-oh, KOZH-ee-UUSH-koh), [1] originally known as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over Newtown Creek in New York City, connecting Greenpoint in Brooklyn to Maspeth in Queens. The bridge consists of a pair of cable-stayed bridge spans ...
The Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge, commonly referred to as the Twin Bridges, is a pair of identical through arch, steel bridges which span the Mohawk River between the towns of Colonie, Albany County and Halfmoon, Saratoga County, in New York State's Capital District.
Map of the bridge's path, highlighted in red. A bill to construct the bridge was proposed in the New York State Legislature in 1920. [37] Gustav Lindenthal, who had designed the Hell Gate Bridge, criticized the Tri-Borough plan as "uncalled for", as the new Tri-Borough Bridge would parallel the existing Hell Gate Bridge.