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The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company , the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m).
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.
During the first phase of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation, from April 26, 1986 to December 11, 1988, [3] the shuttle was extended to 57th Street/Sixth Avenue, running via the Sixth Avenue local tracks, and was called the Sixth Avenue Shuttle while the B and D terminated at 34th Street–Herald Square. Regular service had been expected to ...
The Grand Street Shuttle operated from Broadway–Lafayette Street to Grand Street during 1995, [99] and again between July 2001 [98] and 2004, when the Manhattan Bridge's north tracks were again closed. [100] The V train, which used the Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks, began serving the station in December 2001. [101]
The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (RFK Bridge; also known by its previous name, the Triborough Bridge) is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts [3] in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls and Wards Islands, previously two islands and now joined by landfill.
For nearly 100 nights a year, the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge is a bridge of a different color. Here's why, and how it happens.
A short portion of the line, coming off the north side of the Manhattan Bridge through Canal Street to 14th Street–Union Square, opened on September 4, 1917, at 2 P.M., with an eight car train carrying members of the Public Service Commission, representatives of the city government and officials of the BRT, leaving Union Square toward Coney ...
Rebuilding the bridge has taken much longer than should have been required, but when completed it will be safer for drivers, walkers and bicyclists. Brooks Bridge celebration has been 40-plus ...