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Including approaches, the Brooklyn Bridge is a total of 6,016 feet (1,834 m) long [2] [3] [4] when measured between the curbs at Park Row in Manhattan and Sands Street in Brooklyn. [4] A separate measurement of 5,989 feet (1,825 m) is sometimes given; this is the distance from the curb at Centre Street in Manhattan.
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.
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.
The East River Blueway plan between 38th Street and the Brooklyn Bridge, released on February 7, 2013, [55] would elevate the walkway above the FDR Drive, with ramps rising to a gradual pedestrian bridge located where the 15th Street bottleneck is now. [56] Then-Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer pledged $3.5 million toward the whole ...
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. The ...
Walkway over the Hudson: Hudson River: 1889: New York: 210 ft (64.0 m) Lewis and Clark Bridge: Columbia River: 1930: Oregon / Washington: 206 ft (62.8 m) Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge: Narragansett Bay: 1969: Rhode Island: 205 ft (62.5 m) Long Beach International Gateway Bridge: Back Channel, Port of Long Beach: 2020: California: St. Johns ...
The narrowest part of the East River Greenway in the East Village. The East River Greenway runs along the East Side, from Battery Park and past South Street Seaport to a dead end at 125th Street, East Harlem with a 1.3 miles (2.1 km) gap from 34th to 60th streets in Midtown where pedestrians use busy First and Second Avenues to get around United Nations Headquarters between the Upper East Side ...
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