The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge designed by structural engineer, Othmar Hermann Ammann and urban planner, Robert Moses, that connects the New York City boroughs: Staten Island and Brooklyn. [1]
Although still the longest suspension bridge in the Americas, it is currently the eleventh longest in the world. The bridge was named for both, the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European to sail into New York Harbor, and for the body of water it spans: the Narrows.
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, formerly spelled Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, long-span suspension bridge spanning New York Harbor from Brooklyn to Staten Island, built by Othmar H. Ammann from 1959 to 1964. An exceptionally expensive engineering project largely because of the problem of land acquisition, its total cost was $325 million.
The funnel’s original height design had to be altered in order to make it possible for the ship to pass under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at high tide. The final design of the ship now permits a minimum of ONLY 13 feet (4.0 m) of clearance under the bridge at high tide.
The bridge became known for its pitching deck, and collapsed into Puget Sound the morning of November 7, 1940, under high wind conditions.
As long ago as 1910, when a steady parade of steamships bearing immigrants passed through the Narrows—the mile-wide channel at the entrance to New York Harbor—engineers envisioned a great bridge as a gateway to the New World.
Verrazzano-Narrows BridgeThe Narrows / BridgesThe Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed Upper New York Bay with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows. Wikipedia
A construction worker on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge fell 25 feet from an upper deck on Monday, shattering both his legs, cops said. A 37-year-old Connecticut man ditched his car on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and jumped to his death Sunday morning, cops said.
The ends of the bridge are at historic Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn and Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, both of which guarded New York Harbor at the Narrows for over a century. The bridge was named after Giovanni da Verrazzano, who, in 1524, was the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor.
August 13, 1959Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge / Construction started
Suspension bridgeVerrazzano-Narrows Bridge / Bridge typeA suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world. Wikipedia
Located in the U.S. state of New York, the Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge is one of the most spectacular bridges in the world. This cantilever bridge is 16,013 feet (4,881 m) long and is said to be the scary of scaries.
According to the New York Times, when the bridge officially opened to traffic at about 3 p.m. George Scarpelli, a 22-year-old employee of the Parks Department, who drove a pale blue Cadillac convertible packed with friends in tuxedos, was the first to cross the bridge and pay the 50-cent toll.
Nobody is buried in the structure's foundation, like they claim in Saturday Night Fever. In the film, the bridge symbolizes freedom and a better life…in Staten Island.
Cuomo Bridge is three-mile state-of-the-art, twin-span crossing connecting Rockland and Westchester counties. Located less than 20 miles north of New York City, the cable-stayed span crosses one of the widest parts of the Hudson River and is the longest bridge in New York State.
The Verrazano Bridge is owned by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Company bondholders, who financed its construction more than 50 years ago. It is operated by the TBTA's successor, MTA Bridges and Tunnels.
The bridge was the last great public works project in New York City overseen by Robert Moses, the New York State Parks Commissioner and head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority , who had long desired the bridge as a means of completing the expressway system which was itself largely the result of his efforts.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1964, surpassing the Golden Gate Bridge by 60 feet.
The bridge was named for both, the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European to sail into New York Harbor, and for the body of water it spans: the Narrows.