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The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge is owned by New York City and operated by MTA Bridges and Tunnels, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. With a center span of 2,300 feet (700 m), the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge once had the fourth-largest center span of any suspension bridge in the world.
Whitestone is a residential neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens.The neighborhood proper is located between the East River to the north; College Point and Whitestone Expressway to the west; Flushing and 25th Avenue to the south; and Bayside and Francis Lewis Boulevard to the east.
3 rail tracks (2 of Northeast Corridor, 1 of New York Connecting Railroad) Rikers Island Bridge: 1966: 4,200.0 1,280.16: 2 lanes of roadway: Only connects Rikers Island to Queens Bronx–Whitestone Bridge: 1939: 3,770.0 1,149.10: 6 lanes of I-678 (Whitestone Expressway) Throgs Neck Bridge: 1961: 2,910.0 886.97: 6 lanes of I-295 (Throgs Neck ...
George Washington Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and Bayonne Bridge Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge , Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge , and Bayonne Bridge .
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.
The RFK Bridge, a toll bridge, carries Interstate 278 (I-278) as well as the unsigned highway New York State Route 900G. It connects with the FDR Drive and the Harlem River Drive in Manhattan, the Bruckner Expressway (I-278) and the Major Deegan Expressway ( Interstate 87 ) in the Bronx, and the Grand Central Parkway (I-278) and Astoria ...
The Oyster Bay – Rye Bridge (originally the Bayville – Rye Bridge) was proposed to complete the Interstate 287 beltway around the New York Metropolitan Area. This was to be done by constructing a 6.1-mile-long (9.8 km) cable-stayed suspension bridge from the Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287) in Rye to the Seaford – Oyster Bay ...
The New York City Bus-operated Q44 and the MTA Bus-operated Q50 bus lines stop near Ferry Point Park. [13] Additionally, the park is accessible from the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge. On 28 December 2021 the Soundview Ferry line of NYC Ferry began service to Ferry Point. [14]