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5 lanes of roadway (2 Manhattan-bound, 3 Brooklyn-bound) 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.
Manhattan–Brooklyn ... Brooklyn Bridge: 486 m (1,594 ft) 1,825 m (5,988 ft) ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML;
[17] [18] Use of the existing tunnel was considered as an option because the Montague Street Tunnel had surplus capacity, having carried the M train until its reroute from the BMT Nassau Street Line to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in 2010, and the N train during the reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge from 1986 until 2004. [19] [20]
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 .
It is also home to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo, [35] which covers 265 acres (107 ha) and houses over 6,000 animals. [36] Directly to the zoo's north is the New York Botanical Garden, a botanical garden and National Historic Landmark. Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha). [27]
By the mid-1950s, traffic on the bridge was limited to one train at a time. [5] In 1986, some of the bridge towers were damaged in a wind storm. [5] Union Pacific Railroad is the current owner of the bridge, and starting in 2001, they undertook an inspection and repair program; this resulted in both tracks being opened again, but with a 25-mile-per-hour (40 km/h) slow order.
High Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Harlem River: 1848 / 1927: New York: Israel LaFleur Bridge: Calcasieu River: 1962: Louisiana: West Seattle Bridge: Duwamish Waterway: 1984 Washington: 139 ft (42.4 m) New Tappan Zee Bridge (Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) Hudson River: 2017: New York: 138 ft (42.1 m) Albertus L. Meyers Bridge: Little Lehigh Creek ...
The Spuyten Duyvil Bridge is a railroad swing bridge that spans the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City. The bridge is located at the northern tip of Manhattan where the Spuyten Duyvil Creek meets the Hudson River , approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) to the west of the Henry Hudson Bridge .