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The Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [2] 1903, [3] 1931, [4] and 1964 [5] respectively. There are 789 bridges and tunnels in New York.
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).
The Kosciuszko Bridge (/ ˌ k ɒ z i ˈ ʊ s k oʊ, ˌ k ɒ ʒ i ˈ ʊ ʃ k oʊ / KOZ-ee-UUSK-oh, KOZH-ee-UUSH-koh), [1] originally known as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over Newtown Creek in New York City, connecting Greenpoint in Brooklyn to Maspeth in Queens. The bridge consists of a pair of cable-stayed bridge spans ...
The High Bridge Water Tower was designated a New York City landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. [28] The High Bridge Water Tower underwent a 10-year, $5 million renovation during the 2010s and reopened to the public in November 2021. [31] [32] After the water tower reopened, NYC Parks began hosting free tours of the ...
As of 2019, the Macombs Dam Bridge carries New York City Transit's Bx6 and Bx6 SBS bus routes. [9] [10] In 2016, the New York City Department of Transportation reported an average daily traffic volume in both directions of 38,183, [2] with a peak of 55,609 in 1957. [11] Between 2000 and 2014, the bridge opened for vessels 32 times. [12]
The Madison Avenue Bridge is a four-lane swing bridge crossing the Harlem River in New York City, carrying East 138th Street between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. It was designed by Alfred P. Boller and built in 1910, doubling the capacity of an earlier swing bridge built in 1884.
The New York City Symphony stopped performing at City Center after that season, [141] mainly due to the theater's poor acoustics. [142] George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Society became a resident organization of the CCMD in 1948 and was accordingly renamed the New York City Ballet Company. [143]
By the 1840s, members of the city's elite were publicly calling for the construction of a new large park in Manhattan. [3] At the time, Manhattan's seventeen squares comprised a combined 165 acres (67 ha) of land, [4] constituting less than one percent of Manhattan's total area. [5]