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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 0 Miles (0 Kilometers)

I-278 (Staten Island Expressway and Brooklyn - Queens Expressway) Over The Narrows in New York: Brooklyn, New York and Staten Island, New York, United States

Metal Deck Truss Stiffening Wire Cable Suspension, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 7,934 ft. Main Span: 4,260 ft. Roadway: 73.8 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1961 By: American Bridge Company of New York, New York and Othmar Ammann

This enormous bridge had the longest suspension span in the world when completed.

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17th Avenue Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 2.1 Miles (3.4 Kilometers)

Pedestrian Walkway Over Belt Parkway (NY-907C) in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal One-Hinged Solid Ribbed Deck Arch, Fixed

Length: 133 ft. Main Span: 130 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1941 By: Unknown

One of two beautiful art deco pedestrian overpasses of unusual design crossing this parkway.

Belt Parkway Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 2.9 Miles (4.6 Kilometers)

Belt Parkway (NY-907C) Over Bay Parkway in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal Stringer (Multi-Beam), Fixed

Length: 88 ft. Main Span: 85 ft. Roadway: 68 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1941 By: Unknown

This bridge is a steel beam bridge with attractive arched beams.

26th Avenue Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 3.4 Miles (5.5 Kilometers)

Belt Parkway (NY-907C) Over 26th Avenue in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Concrete (Stone Faced) Rigid-Frame, Fixed

Length: 81 ft. Main Span: 71 ft. Roadway: 68 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1941 By: Unknown

A representative example of a stone faced concrete rigid-frame bridge on the Belt Parkway, where this bridge type is less common.

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27th Avenue Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 3.5 Miles (5.7 Kilometers)

Pedestrian Walkway Over Belt Parkway (NY-907C) in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal One-Hinged Solid Ribbed Deck Arch, Fixed

Length: 133 ft. Main Span: 130 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1941 By: Unknown

One of two beautiful art deco pedestrian overpasses of unusual design crossing this parkway.

Culver Viaduct
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.2 Miles (8.3 Kilometers)

Railroad (New York Subway, F Line and G Line) Over Gowanus Canal and Various Roads in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal 8 Panel Rivet-Connected Warren Through Truss, Fixed

Built 1933 By: Unknown

As an elevated section of an elevated section of the New York Subway, it is hard to define a start and end to this long, bridge-like structure.

Culver Viaduct 3rd Avenue Overpass
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.2 Miles (8.4 Kilometers)

Railroad (New York Subway, F Line and G Line) Over 3rd Avenue in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal 6 Panel Rivet-Connected Warren Through Truss, Fixed

Main Span: 84 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1933 By: Unknown

This is one of the larger spans of this section of elevated railroad, which required a truss span.

4th Avenue 9th Street Station Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.3 Miles (8.5 Kilometers)

Railroad (New York Subway, F Line and G Line) Over 4th Avenue in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal 7 Panel Rivet-Connected Camelback Through Truss, Fixed

Main Spans: 1

Built 1933 By: Unknown

This subway station is essentially also a large overpass bridge, and it features a beautiful arch-like facade that conceals the truss span within.

3rd Street Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.5 Miles (8.9 Kilometers)

3rd Street Over Gowanus Canal in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal Variable Depth Deck Girder, Movable: Double Leaf Bascule (Rolling Lift) and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 106 ft. Main Span: 56 ft. Roadway: 30 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1905 By: Unknown and Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company of Chicago, Illinois

This is one of two surviving rolling lift bascule bridges on this canal which are among the oldest such bridges in the country.

Carroll Street Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.7 Miles (9.1 Kilometers)

Carroll Street Over Gowanus Canal in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal Through Girder, Movable: Retractile

Length: 107 ft. Main Span: 107 ft. Roadway: 17.7 ft. Main Spans: 2

Built 1889 By: New Jersey Steel and Iron Company of Trenton, New Jersey and Brooklyn Department of City Works

This is one of the only known operable retractile bridges in North America.

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Union Street Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.8 Miles (9.3 Kilometers)

Union Street Over Gowanus Canal in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal Variable Depth Deck Girder, Movable: Double Leaf Bascule (Rolling Lift) and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 107 ft. Main Span: 56 ft. Roadway: 35 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1905 By: Unknown and Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company of Chicago, Illinois

This is one of two surviving rolling lift bascule bridges on this canal which are among the oldest such bridges in the country.

Terrace Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.8 Miles (9.3 Kilometers)

Hill Drive (Well House Drive) Over Prospect Park Lake in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal Hingeless Deck Arch, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Stringer (Multi-Beam), Fixed

Length: 130 ft. Main Span: 71 ft. Roadway: 40 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1890 By: Unknown

This is a very ornately detailed and early surviving example of a riveted metal arch bridge.

Nethermead Arch
HSR

Rough Distance: 5.9 Miles (9.5 Kilometers)

Center Drive Over The Ambergill, Pedestrian Walkway in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Stone and Brick Segmental Deck Arch, Fixed

Length: 119 ft. Main Span: 27 ft. Roadway: 34.5 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1870 By: Unknown

This stone arch bridge is buried in a wooded area, but is noted for its impressive brick underside that people walking under it can enjoy.

Lullwater Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 6 Miles (9.6 Kilometers)

Prospect Park Walkway Over Prospect Park Lake in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Metal (Cast Iron) Deck Arch, Fixed

Length: 60 ft. Main Span: 60 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1889 By: McKim, Mead, and White of New York, New York

This unique bridge is noted for its extensive and beautiful cast iron ornamentation

Cleft Ridge Arch
HSR

Rough Distance: 6 Miles (9.7 Kilometers)

Well House Drive Over Pedestrian Walkway in New York: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Stone Semicircular Deck Arch, Fixed

Main Spans: 1

Built 1872 By: Unknown and Calvert Vaux

This ancient stone arch bridge is also noted for its very ornamental details.

Bayonne Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 6.4 Miles (10.3 Kilometers)

NY-440 and NJ-440 Over Kill Van Kull and Various Streets in Bayonne and New York: Hudson County, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York, United States

Metal Two-Hinged Braced Ribbed Through Arch, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 6,695 ft. Main Span: 1,675 ft. Roadway: 40 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1931 By: American Bridge Company of New York, New York and Othmar Ammann

This magnificent bridge held the record for longest arch span in the world for decades.

Brooklyn Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 6.9 Miles (11.1 Kilometers)

Adams Street Over East River in New York: Brooklyn, New York and Manhattan, New York, United States

Metal Through Truss Stiffening Wire Cable Suspension, Fixed and Approach Spans: Stone Semicircular Deck Arch, Fixed

Length: 5,989 ft. Main Span: 1,596 ft. Roadway: 59.7 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1883 By: New York Bridge Company, Edge Moor Iron Company, J. Lloyd Haigh, and Others and Washington Augustus Roebling, John Augustus Roebling, and Others

This stunning bridge has been called the most influential bridge in U.S. history.

Manhattan Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 7.1 Miles (11.5 Kilometers)

Flatbush Avenue and New York City Subway Over East River and Various Roads in New York: Brooklyn, New York and Manhattan, New York, United States

Metal Pony Truss Stiffening Wire Cable Suspension, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Rivet-Connected Warren Deck Truss, Fixed

Length: 6,855 ft. Main Span: 1,470 ft. Roadway: 46 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1909 By: Ryan-Parker Construction Company of New York, New York and Gustav Lindenthal, Othniel Foster Nichols, and Leon Moisseiff

The companion bridge to Brooklyn Bridge, but in its own right one of the most beautiful and impressive bridges in the country.

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Newark Bay Bridge
Vincent R. Casciano Memorial Bridge, Turnpike Extension Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 7.3 Miles (11.8 Kilometers)

New Jersey Turnpike Extension (I-78) Over Newark Bay in Newark and Bayonne: Essex County, New Jersey and Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal Continuous 18 Panel Rivet-Connected Braced Ribbed Through Arch, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 6,170 ft. Main Span: 671 ft. Roadway: 77 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1955 By: Unknown

This large high level bridge is adds interest to this extension of the New Jersey Turnpike, which connects to Bayonne.

Williamsburg Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.1 Miles (13 Kilometers)

Delancey Street and New York City Subway Over East River in New York: Brooklyn, New York and Manhattan, New York, United States

Metal Through Truss Stiffening Wire Cable Suspension, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Rivet-Connected Lattice (Quadruple Warren) Through Truss, Fixed

Length: 7,308 ft. Main Span: 1,600 ft. Roadway: 76 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1903 By: American Bridge Company of New York, New York and Leffert L. Buck

The largest of the three East River suspension bridges, and a nationally significant suspension bridge with an uncommon stiffening truss.

US-1/US-9 Truck Hackensack River Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.2 Miles (13.2 Kilometers)

US-1 and US-9 Truck Route Over Hackensack River in Kearny and Jersey City: Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal Rivet-Connected Polygonal Warren Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Tower Drive) and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 1,480 ft. Main Span: 222 ft. Roadway: 73.5 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1954 By: Unknown

One of two vertical lift bridges on this stretch of roadway.

PATH Lift Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.6 Miles (13.9 Kilometers)

Railroad (Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)) Over Hackensack River in Kearny and Jersey City: Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal 10 Panel Rivet-Connected Parker Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Span Drive) and Approach Spans: Metal 7 Panel Rivet-Connected Pratt Through Truss, Fixed

Length: 3,015 ft. Main Span: 332 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1928 By: Unknown

This is one of a unique group of vertical lift bridges in this area.

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Wittpenn Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.6 Miles (13.9 Kilometers)

Newark Avenue (NJ-7) Over Hackensack River in Kearny and Jersey City: Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal Rivet-Connected Pratt Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Span Drive) and Approach Spans: Metal Rivet-Connected Camelback Through Truss, Fixed

Length: 2,126 ft. Main Span: 206 ft. Roadway: 40 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1930 By: Strobel Steel Construction Company of Chicago, Illinois and Harrington, Howard, and Ash of Kansas City, Missouri and Sigvald Johannesson

This vertical lift bridge with its unique curved approach has been sentenced to the scrapyard despite its historic significance.

Pulaski Skyway
Including The Hoboken Avenue Viaduct
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.7 Miles (14 Kilometers)

US-1 and US-9 Over Passaic River, Hackensack River, and Various Roads and Railroads in Newark, Kearny, and Jersey City: Essex County, New Jersey and Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal Cantilever Rivet-Connected Pratt Through Truss, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Cantilever 12 Panel Rivet-Connected Pratt Deck Truss, Fixed

Length: 14,907 ft. Main Span: 550 ft. Roadway: 47 ft. Main Spans: 6

Built 1932 By: Various Builders and Sigvald Johannesson

With award-winning aesthetics, this extremely long bridge is also noted for its exceedingly complex design.

Lower Hack Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 8.7 Miles (14 Kilometers)

Railroad (New Jersey Transit Morristown Line) Over Hackensack River in Kearny and Jersey City: Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal 7 Panel Rivet-Connected Parker Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Span Drive) and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 1,480 ft. Main Span: 198 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1928 By: American Bridge Company of New York, New York and Waddell and Hardesty of New York, New York

This is one of several vertical lift bridges in this area.

US-1/US-9 Truck Passaic River Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 9 Miles (14.5 Kilometers)

US-1 and US-9 Truck Route Over Passaic River in Newark and Kearny: Essex County, New Jersey and Hudson County, New Jersey, United States

Metal Rivet-Connected Polygonal Warren Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Tower Drive) and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 2,005 ft. Main Span: 333 ft. Roadway: 51 ft. Main Spans: 1

Built 1941 By: American Bridge Company of New York, New York and Ash, Howard, Needles, and Tammen of New York, New York

This is the older and more significant of two similar vertical lift bridges on this stretch of road.

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Goethals Bridge
Elizabeth - Howland Hook Bridge
HSR

Rough Distance: 9.6 Miles (15.5 Kilometers)

I-278 (Staten Island Expressway) Over Arthur Kill in Elizabeth and New York: Union County, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York, United States

Metal Cantilever Rivet-Connected Warren Through Truss, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Deck Girder, Fixed

Length: 8,073 ft. Main Span: 672 ft. Roadway: 42 ft. Main Spans: 3

Built 1928 By: Unknown and J. A. L. Waddell

This impressive cantilever truss bridge was designed by a famous bridge engineer.

Special Bridge Conditions Legend: R - Former location of relocated bridge. ! - At risk for demolition or destruction. X - Confirmed demolished or collapsed. S - Dismantled and/or in storage. L - Severe loss of historic integrity due to alteration.

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