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Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region, but no injuries were reported. The National Weather Service ...
Strong storms started rolling across the South on Tuesday night with torrential rain, hail and fierce winds that continued to rage Wednesday killing at least one person, destroying homes, and ...
Over 100,000 without power in the East; Ohio has nearly 200,000 outages. In the eastern U.S., more than 100,000 homes and businesses were in the dark Friday afternoon as Debby barreled across the ...
On the Manhattan side, the bridge funnels traffic into three locations: East 128th Street; the intersection of East 129th Street and Lexington Avenue; or FDR Drive in Manhattan. The bridge was formerly bidirectional, but converted to one-way operation southbound on August 5, 1941 on the same day the Willis Avenue Bridge was similarly converted ...
FDR Drive was built along the East River shore in the 1930s using embankments and pilings. East River Park was built on landfill. In December 2019, the New York City Council voted to approve the controversial $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project, [17] involving the park's complete demolition and subsequent renovation. [18] [19]
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.
06:30, Kelly Rissman. NYC’s flooding is linked to climate change. Three to six inches of rain have fallen with several more on the way in the next 24 hours, according to the National Weather ...
However, the Battery Park Underpass was not expected to be completed until 1952, and the FDR Drive extension would take even longer to be completed. Additionally, although a direct ramp from the Brooklyn-bound tunnel to the northbound Brooklyn–Queens Expressway was planned, construction was being delayed due to the difficulty of evicting ...