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Highlights include documents from the first Dutch colonial government in New Amsterdam, the most comprehensive collection of records pertaining to the administration of criminal justice in the English-speaking world, two centuries of mayoral papers, the architectural plans for construction of Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge, and a ...
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. Williamsburg Bridge: 1903: 7,308.0 2,227.48
Stone arch bridge Bridge L-158: 1883, 1904 1978-11-29 Goldens Bridge: Westchester: Whipple through truss Brooklyn Bridge: 1869, 1883 1966-10-15 New York: Kings, New York: Wire cable suspension bridge Buskirk Covered Bridge: ca. 1850: 1978-03-08 Buskirk
Former bridge commissioners of New York City Name Term Appointed by 1 John L. Shea [8] 1898-1901 Robert A. Van Wyck: 2 Gustav Lindenthal [9] 1902-1903 Seth Low: 3 George E. Best [10] 1904-1905 George B. McClellan Jr. 4 James W. Stevenson [11] 1906-1909 5 Kingsley L. Martin [12] 1910-1911 William J. Gaynor: 6 Arthur J. O'Keeffe [13] 1911-1913 7 ...
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.
For as long as many of our readers can remember, a single orange has always appeared at the toe of their Christmas stockings. "I still place apples and oranges in my grandkids' stockings, in honor ...
This is a list of covered bridges in New York State. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation identifies 29 covered bridges in New York State as historic, but these are not all listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Getting a good night's sleep can be a little more challenging amid the hype of the holidays. With changes in routine, diet and potentially time zones, quality sleep could be difficult to come by ...