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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.
The Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn: Third Street Bridge: 1905 [10] 350 feet: Third Street: Ninth Street Bridge: 1999 [10] 700 feet: Ninth Street: Vertical Lift Bridge Ninth Street Bridge, spanning Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn: Culver Viaduct: 1933 [12] 0.6 miles trains: passes over the Ninth Street Bridge, carrying 4 tracks, 2 express ...
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 ...
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 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.
Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company, the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m). The bridge is one of four vehicular bridges directly connecting Manhattan Island and Long Island; the nearby Brooklyn Bridge is just slightly farther west, while the Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges are to the north. [8]
Pulaski Bridge from above, highlighted in red. The Pulaski Bridge in New York City connects Long Island City in Queens to Greenpoint in Brooklyn over Newtown Creek.It was named after Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War fighter Casimir Pulaski in homage to the large Polish-American population in Greenpoint. [2]
The city approved Brooklyn borough president Edward J. Riegelmann's proposal for an 80-foot-wide (24 m), 9,000-foot-long (2,700 m) boardwalk between Ocean Parkway and Sea Gate in July 1920. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] City officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 1, 1921, [ 84 ] [ 85 ] the day they obtained title to the land.