Henry Hudson Bridge
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| Official name | Henry Hudson Bridge |
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| Carries | 7 lanes (3 upper, 4 lower) of NY 9A, (Henry Hudson Parkway) |
| Crosses | Harlem River |
| Locale | Spuyten Duyvil section of The Bronx, Northern end of Manhattan (Inwood Hill Park) |
| Maintained by | Metropolitan Transportation Authority Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority |
| Design | Steel Arch Bridge |
| Longest span | 841 ft (256 m) |
| Total length | 2208 ft (673 m) |
| Width | 3 lane upper deck, 4 lane lower deck |
| Vertical clearance | 12 feet |
| Clearance below | 143 ft (44 m) |
| AADT | 75,000 |
| Opening date | December 12, 1936 |
| Toll | Cars $2.25 (both directions) ($.50 discount with E-ZPass) |
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The Henry Hudson Bridge is a steel arch toll bridge in New York City across the Harlem River, a tidal strait. It connects the Spuyten Duyvil section of The Bronx with the northern end of Manhattan to the south. On the Manhattan side, it touches Inwood Hill Park. The bridge has two roadway levels, carrying an aggregate of seven traffic lanes, the lower level having been opened to traffic in 1936 and the upper level in 1938, and was designed by David B. Steinman (in realization of his PhD thesis), and built by the American Bridge Company at an original cost of 4,949,000 USD for the original single deck structure. A second deck had been designed in, and was added in 1938 at an additional cost of approximately 2,000,000 USD.
When it opened, it was the longest plate girder arch and fixed arch bridge in the world. The bridge spans the Harlem River just before that river meets the Hudson River. The bridge is part of the Henry Hudson Parkway placarded as New York State Route 9A. To its west, at 5 feet above water level is the Sputyen Duyvil Bridge, which is used by Amtrak trains heading to Albany, New York and other points north.
As of March 13, 2005, the crossing charge for a two-axle passenger vehicle is $2.25 charged in each direction, with a $.50 discount for E-ZPass users. About 75,000 vehicles per day use the bridge. Current traffic alignment is northbound on the three-lane upper deck and southbound on the four-lane lower deck.
The bridge is owned by New York City and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. A rehabilitation project commenced in 2000 and is being carried out by Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and Birdsall a successor firm of Robinson & Steinman, the firm that originally designed and engineered the bridge.
If one is travelling down the Hudson River into the Harlem River, the last bridge that one will cross under before this one is the Tappan Zee Bridge.
[edit] External links
- NYC Roads entry
- entry at Structurae.de
- thebassguy.com artistic photos
| Crossings of the Harlem River | |||
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| Upstream Spuyten Duyvil Bridge  |
Henry Hudson Bridge  |
Downstream Broadway Bridge   |
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