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Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly known as the FDR Drive, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park Underpass, and runs north along the East River to the 125th Street / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge interchange, where it becomes Harlem River Drive.
The Battery Park Underpass is a vehicular tunnel at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, New York City, near the neighborhoods of South Ferry and Battery Park City.The tunnel connects FDR Drive, which runs along the east side of Manhattan Island, with the West Side Highway (New York State Route 9A, or NY 9A), which runs along the island's west side.
An extension of the East River Drive (by now renamed the FDR Drive [178]) to the future Battery Park Underpass and Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was approved in 1949. [179] Eventually, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was also slated to connect to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island. [180]
If that famous "Final Destination" logging truck scene already lurks in the back of your mind whenever you're driving on a highway, you may want to sit this one out.
U.S. Highway 11 (US 11) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that spans 1,645 miles (2,647 km) [a] [2] from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Rouses Point, New York. Within the state of Louisiana, the highway travels 31 miles (50 km) [ 1 ] from the national southern terminus at US 90 in New Orleans to the Mississippi state line south ...
FDR Drive south / Harlem River Drive north: Northbound exit and southbound entrance; exit 17 on FDR Drive/Harlem River Drive: 0.6: 0.97: East 124th Street: Southbound entrance only: East 125th Street / 2nd Avenue: Northern terminus; at-grade intersection: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The first span opened to eastbound traffic on July 9, 2009. [1] On April 7, 2010, the second span was opened to traffic and the old twin spans were permanently closed to traffic. [2] The approaches to the westbound lanes were completed with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 8, 2011, and the opening of all six lanes the next morning. [3]
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