Bridges in New York

Bridgesin

New York

Verrazano Narrows Bridge

• suspension bridge (Staten Island/Brooklyn)

• Giovanni da Verrazano, the Narrow

• Othmar Hermann Amman & Robert Moses

• span width: 1298 meters

• finished 1964

• N.Y.C. marathon

Throgs Neck Bridge

• suspension bridge (Queens / Bronx)

• Throggs Neck

• Othmar H. Amman & Robert Moses

• total length: 887 meters

• finished in 1961

• should relieve the Bronx-Whitestone-Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

• suspension bridge (Manhattan/Brooklyn)

• New York and Brooklyn Bridge

• John August Roebling, Washington August Roebling & Emily Warren Roebling

• total length: 1834 meters

• finished in 1883

• 34 people died one day after the opening

Queensboro Bridge

• cantilever bridge (Queens/Manhattan)• 59th Street Bridge• Gustav Lindenthal, Leffert L. Buck & Henry Hornbostel• finished: 1909• total length: 1135 meters

Triborough Bridge

• complex of three bridges (Bronx/Manhattan/Queens)

• East River: supension bridge

• Harlem River: lift bridge

• Bronx Kills: truss bridge

• Robert Moses

• finished 1936

Bear Mountain Bridge

• suspension bridge (Hudson River)• Bear Mountain• Finished: 1924• George Washington Bridge and Golden Gate

Bridge

Sources

• www.wikipedia.de

• www.bridgemeister.com

• www.nycroads.com

• de.structurae.de

A presentation

by

Ann-Kathrin Hansmann

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