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The Throgs Neck Bridge's construction was announced in January 1955, by the Port Authority and the TBTA as part of the Port Authority's Joint Study of Arterial Facilities, a $600 million plan to improve highway access in the New York City area (equal to $6.12 billion in 2023 [27]). The plan also included the construction of the Verrazzano ...
Walt Whitman Bridge (opened May 16, 1957) Throgs Neck Bridge (opened January 11, 1961) Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (opened November 21, 1964) The George Washington Bridge was originally designed to have its steel structure clad in dressed stone, omitted from the final design due to cost constraints stemming from the Great Depression. Ammann's ...
The Throgs Neck Bridge, a project to alleviate traffic on the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, started construction in 1957 [51] [52] and opened in January 1961. [53] [54] The long-planned Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which had been proposed as far back as the 1920s, [55]: 135 [56] started construction in 1959 [57] and opened in November 1964.
Throgs Neck Bridge: 1961: 2,910.0 886.97: 6 lanes of I-295 (Throgs Neck Expressway) Harlem River. From south to north, east to west: Name Opening year Length Carries
The Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island Sound east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. The project has been studied and debated since the mid-20th century.
Interstate 295 (I-295) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway within New York City.Measuring 7.7 miles (12.4 km) in length, I-295 originates at NY 25 (Hillside Avenue) in Queens, running north across Queens and over the tolled Throgs Neck Bridge, to Bruckner Interchange, a junction with I-95, I-278, I-678, and the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx.
Maintenance work on the Sagamore Bridge isn't expected before 2025, said Bryan Purtell, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the organization responsible for maintaining ...
The bridge connects Throggs Neck and Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, on the East River's northern shore, with the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens on the southern shore. Although the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge's construction was proposed as early as 1905, it was not approved until 1936.