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The Throgs Neck Bridge had carried 16.4 million vehicles by the end of the year, and the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge recorded a corresponding 40% decline in traffic in 1961. [62] The Throgs Neck Bridge was originally designated as part of I-78, which extended south to Hillside Avenue , the southern terminus of the Clearview Expressway.
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 ...
Conveniently for Howe, there was a road running from Throgs Neck to Kingsbridge, directly behind the American forces. [7] Howe hoped to use this road to flank the Americans and pin them against the Hudson River. [7] Under the cover of fog, an advance force of 4,000 men under the command of General Henry Clinton was landed on Throgs Neck. [7]
New York City's crossings date back to 1693, when its first bridge, known as the King's Bridge, was constructed over Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, located in the present-day Kingsbridge neighborhood. The bridge, composed of stone abutments and a timber deck, was demolished in 1917.
Throgs Neck Bridge opens. [25] 1962 Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center established. [32] [9] Joseph F. Periconi becomes the seventh borough president. [20] Bus operator New York City Omnibus Corporation goes bankrupt and its operations are taken over by the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. The Bronx Council on the Arts is ...
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.
While I-95 leaves at the Bruckner Interchange in Throgs Neck, following the Bruckner Expressway and New England Thruway to Connecticut, the Cross Bronx Expressway continues east, carrying I-295 to the merge with the Throgs Neck Expressway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Though the road goes primarily northwest-to-southeast, the nominal directions ...
Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a neighborhood and peninsula in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.It is bounded by the East River and Long Island Sound to the south and east, Westchester Creek on the west, and Baisley Avenue and the Bruckner Expressway on the north.