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The Brooklyn Bridge has an elevated promenade open to pedestrians in the center of the bridge, located 18 feet (5.5 m) above the automobile lanes. [32] The promenade is usually located 4 feet (1.2 m) below the height of the girders, except at the approach ramps leading to each tower's balcony. [33]
I-95 bridge: 1961: 5,280 feet: 6 lanes of I-95: Hutchinson River Parkway Bridge: 1941: 673 feet (205 m) 6 lanes of Hutchinson River Parkway: Drawbridge Pelham Bay Bridge: 1908: 81 feet (25 m) Northeast Corridor (Amtrak) Also called Amtrak Pelham Bay Bridge Pelham Bridge: 1908: 892 feet (272 m) 4 lanes of Shore Road: Drawbridge Westchester Creek ...
143 ft (43.6 m) Henry Hudson Bridge: Spuyten Duyvil Creek: 1936: New York: Outerbridge Crossing: Arthur Kill: 1928: New York / New Jersey: Triborough Bridge (Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) East River: 1936: New York: 142 ft (43.3 m) Throgs Neck Bridge: East River: 1961: New York: 141 ft (43.0 m) Hart Bridge: St. Johns River: 1967: Florida: 140 ft ...
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]
Length Type Carries Crosses Opened ... Brooklyn Bridge: 486 m (1,594 ft) 1,825 m (5,988 ft) ... By height; By state; By city Boston;
A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public after 15 years — restoring another slice of greenspace for one of the city’s most crowded neighborhoods.
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City.Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.
Brooklyn Heights Promenade in 2006. The Brooklyn Heights Promenade, also called the Esplanade, [1] is a 1,826-foot (557 m)-long platform and pedestrian walkway cantilevered over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278) in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, United States.