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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.
To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s. [396] Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976. [397]
The Brooklyn approach to the Manhattan Bridge also contained a terraced plaza with balustrades. [329] The Brooklyn plaza was originally bounded by Sands, Bridge, Nassau, and Jay streets. [10] French designed a pair of 20-short-ton (18-long-ton; 18 t) pylons named Brooklyn and Manhattan on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge. These were ...
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 .
The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (RFK Bridge; also known by its previous name, the Triborough Bridge) is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts [3] in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls and Wards Islands, previously two islands and now joined by landfill.
The Fleur Drive bridge over the Raccoon River and connecting to Locust Street will close to traffic starting Nov. 11, 2024, until next summer as the city wraps up the last phase of years-long ...
José Mendiola, Des Moines Register August 20, 2024 at 4:02 AM The one-way Southwest Eighth Street bridge over Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway into downtown Des Moines closed Monday for at least ...
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]