The Bridges of New York City

Mike Ruby: 4th Mar 2005 - 16:01 GMT

Thanks for the collection!

You are missing one, if you are meaning to include all bridges that connect boroughs: the railroad bridge just west of the Henry Hudson bridge that carries Amtrak, CSX, and Canadian Pacific trains from Manhattan to the Bronx, Westchester, and points north. Missing only one is a good job though! Most people would forget the Park Avenue Metro North bridge and/or the Hell Gate.

Also, I'm curious as to why the Tappan Zee, entirely outside city limits, belongs, and bridges like the Bayonne and Goethals, partially within the city, do not. It is pretty though.

Mike Ruby: 4th Mar 2005 - 16:05 GMT

Oh, and also the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Queens over Newtown Creek (and the one over Jamaica Bay to Rockaway), but if you were to include those, there may be not much justification beyond the political boundary thing to not include the dozens more bridges over the Bronx River, Gowanus Canal, Hutchinson River...

Peter: 4th Mar 2005 - 16:14 GMT

Mike: ahh the Spuyten Duyvil bridge! cant believe i forgot that. ill go add it to this entry ASAP. i used to row under it every day when i was in college.

re: the tappan zee... cause its a true hudson river bridge, as opposed to the bayone bridge, etc.

the reason why i didnt include the bayone or the other bridges you listted are because there are just too many. i did get some good incidental ones around the gowanus canal here though!

maybe ill do another entry of the other bridges. i jsut didnt want to make it too long here or it would take hours to load :)

Mike Ruby: 4th Mar 2005 - 17:01 GMT

Hours indeed! And there is always another one just around the corner to forget. I have a project going where I walk across every walkable bridge in the city and take a train or bus or taxi across every one I can't. It's quite a challenge.

Have you seen some of the bridges up in Bronx Park? There's a beautiful old high bridge just below the facility where you can rent a kayak. Also, the monorail in the zoo is certainly the only city bridge from which you can see rhino and Siberian tiger.

Peter: 4th Mar 2005 - 17:05 GMT

cool! i dont get up to the bronx much, unfortunately, but now that warmer weather is coming and i have a speedy bicycle at my disposal, i might make a go of it and get up there and shoot some flicks.

have you crossed the aqueduct over the harlem river? its amazing up there! unfortunatly, the one time i was there was by chance and i didnt have my camera. i must go again, and hope that the terrorism-phobia that has developed since my first trip doesnt prevent my access.

steelisreal: 4th Mar 2005 - 20:20 GMT

guess now i will post my other photos of bridges in london, today is unofficial bridge day on citynoise it seems

Peter: 4th Mar 2005 - 20:32 GMT

word up! dude, we had to change some shit on here re: uploading... would you be able to resize your photos a lil bit and make em around 500-600px wide until we get it sorted? thanks :D

steelisreal: 4th Mar 2005 - 22:30 GMT

ooo sorry about this my pics are huge, didn't realize it was an issue

Jamie: 4th Mar 2005 - 22:59 GMT

Dude it's ok, the site is supposed to resize them on the fly but things have gone a bit shonky for the time being. We can resize your current pics. Just be sure to keep em at 600 pixels wide till we fix shit up, to keep your posts looking nice :-) keep posting. We love you x x

Mike: 7th Mar 2005 - 01:59 GMT

No, I haven't even attempted the High Bridge. I read that it was closed off and has been for decades. If I find access is possible somehow though...

friend of NZONE: 9th Mar 2005 - 08:24 GMT

Peter,

Great bridges!! I can't believe you've got photos of all of them!

Can you do me a favor and re-post the NZONE graffiti pics that you posted in April 0f 2004? Or email them to me at icfame@earthlink.net?

Thanks much!

watcher: 11th Mar 2005 - 22:46 GMT

there are two seperate pictures of the tribourough.

Peter: 12th Mar 2005 - 01:24 GMT

yes, because its two different spans cross two different rivers, duh.

Paul G: 18th Mar 2005 - 22:26 GMT

Peter, this is my favorite series of pictures on this site. Chicago is supposed to contain more moving bridges than any other city in the world. But, those bridges were - almost exclusively - designed and built by the same firm. In addition, almost all were made of the same material: iron, and almost every one of our bridges was/is painted black. We have many bridges, but little "bridge diversity," and that makes for monotony...

"Chicago-based engineer Strauss had built many bridges--many small, ugly, black-painted bridges. He really was not the man to design or build the new Golden Gate Bridge."

http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies8/GoldenGate.htm

A different Strauss, but still, a Straussian connection...haha.

whonose: 22nd Mar 2005 - 00:29 GMT

impressive. how long did the collection take to acquire?

Moscow: 7th Apr 2005 - 08:30 GMT

Wow! It's impressive collection... I'm going to collect Moscow's bridges now, and post it here to comare %)
(sorry for grammar mistakes)

brandon: 9th Apr 2005 - 08:18 GMT

i am writing a screen play and one of the characters is a drawbridge operator, is that such an ocupation, if so does anyone know how to get ahold of one to speak with?
thanks

Mike: 28th Apr 2005 - 18:06 GMT

I have some recent pictures and I think some smaller ones in the winter of highway, pedestrian, and railroad bridges across the Bronx River in Bronx Park. Interested?

Peter: 28th Apr 2005 - 18:31 GMT

sure, post em here! check how to upload/post photos at this link:www.citynoise.org/post.php

just upload the photo and you can post it into a comment or entry by copy/pasting the resulting code, you know, the part you'll see with the brackets around it (including hte brackets!)

Anonymous (dhip-013.east-quad.residences.colby.edu): 28th Apr 2005 - 18:34 GMT

How about the little bridges over the Gowanus Canal. There's a really great sign on one of them about a ridiculously small fine you have to pay if you go too fast- I think it's maybe $7-$12. I love that bridge.

kimberly: 29th Apr 2005 - 19:48 GMT

thanks for showing us all the bridges of Nyc. now if i could only come to Nyc and go across them all :-D

sine: 30th Apr 2005 - 05:32 GMT

i don't think those photos of the brooklyn and manhattan bridges really do them justice. their beauty is far more impressive! i am really in love with the fair blue-and-white art nouveau vision that is the manhattan bridge.

Jason C. Serrano: 2nd May 2005 - 21:39 GMT

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Peter: 3rd May 2005 - 13:21 GMT

so strange, what some of our random visitors post, eh?

jeff: 4th May 2005 - 11:37 GMT

You forgot the Bronx River Draw Bridge on the Bruckner Expressway, it is one of the few remaining draw bridges that is on an Interstate highway

nora: 15th May 2005 - 16:44 GMT

Peter
brillant thank you .i always wanted to go to New YORK .Don.t think i will make it now thank.s to you i know what some of it looks like

Mike Ruby: 14th Jun 2005 - 16:05 GMT

Here are two of the Bronx River Parkway's bridges over the Bronx River

Rafael: 10th Aug 2005 - 19:34 GMT

I'm not tired of visiting this article. Thank you Peter!

Francine: 8th Sep 2005 - 19:21 GMT

Came upon your site and love all your fantastic bridge shots.
I have a question, what is the name of the bridge in Astoria.
Is it the Triborough or Hell's Gate?
Thank You

kc: 19th Sep 2005 - 12:24 GMT

thanks, peter. just found this through your ref in another post...good reference! Good to know about kayaking under whatever Bronx bridge that was...the bridges of the Gowanus would be good--they're all engineering marvels, I think! And I wonder if the person looking for a bridge operator could have found the Chicken Man?

Roman Gorbenko: 15th Dec 2005 - 21:27 GMT

This is very good posting of the bridges of New York City! I am glad to see it! Thank You!

champ: 30th Dec 2005 - 05:18 GMT

yo that was good i live in staten island and i dont no y u did not put in the other 3 bridges from staten island u no what i am saying

Peter: 30th Dec 2005 - 07:22 GMT

champ: um, cause those bridges go to jersey ;)

champ: 1st Jan 2006 - 07:34 GMT

peter yes i no they go to jersey i live on the island but the bridges of NEW YORK meens that all of the bridges in the new york city ;-$)

Bob Orrange: 15th Jan 2006 - 13:40 GMT

I am preparing a display about the bridges in New York State and found your article very helpful. Thanks

Chantelly: 18th Jan 2006 - 18:31 GMT

I can't find ANY information on this site. I suggest you get more pictures of the Hudson River.
Thank You.

jeeff: 18th Jan 2006 - 18:36 GMT

i can't find any information on this site either! ...just all these photos and text everywhere.

little ukraine: 14th Apr 2006 - 19:16 GMT

wow, fantastic post. especially glad to see the hell gate pic.

barbara mcgrail: 18th Apr 2006 - 21:14 GMT

thank you. what lovely photographs. i didn't realise there were so many bridges in the area, but certainly seeing the 'brooklyn, manhattan, and williamsburgh (BMW) brought back lovely memories of sailing underneath them last september 05 whilst on holiday. hope to go back some day...

Alery: 29th May 2006 - 18:52 GMT

Beautiful photographs. I hope some day stay in NY to see all of them. Thanks

Senanu Awunyo-Akaba: 30th Aug 2006 - 05:17 GMT

What a scene of beauty! Wow I love you New York City. God bless America

Alexa: 3rd Oct 2006 - 04:36 GMT

Great bridge pics! Beautiful! I have a fear of bridges, yet I enjoy looking at them. I don't think I could ever drive across the massive bridges of NY........not sure I could even ride in the car while crossing them. While in SF, Ca the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate were hard for me.....as were some of the Mississippi river bridges. Anyway.....thanks for sharing. I LOVE New York, and hope to visit one day!

Alexa: 3rd Oct 2006 - 04:38 GMT

Question..........what does the Tappan Zee bridge connect?

Peter: 3rd Oct 2006 - 14:10 GMT

it connects new york and new jersey over the hudson river, a few miles north of the george washington bridge...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge

Naomi: 9th Dec 2006 - 19:20 GMT

Someone asked about the High Bridge-It is closed currently, but residents of the Bronx neighborhood of Highbridge have apparently been campaigning to have the bridge reopened. The city very recently announced a plan to reopen the bridge after a reconstruction project. Pretty cool, since it is NYC's oldest bridge still standing!

robert Pearson: 10th Feb 2007 - 21:45 GMT

need to know the exact number of true bridges within and/or, connected to the city of of New york
I am at rpearson4@nyc.rr.com

Jeff: 18th Feb 2007 - 04:01 GMT

These bridges are beautiful my favorits are the brooklyn,manhattan,george washington or (the G.W.)and the verazino narrows or simply put the narrows bridge. New York City is my faverit place to be and i plan on liveing there someday sooon!

Fred : 1st Mar 2007 - 05:11 GMT

Left NYC in 1953 the last trip back to NYC was in 2005. The only bridge I went over was Helgate. The family was supprised the I still rememberd the name.
Great site.

iman: 8th Apr 2007 - 12:27 GMT

great shots, i've crossed half these bridges myself, but they look better in the pictures.

Cjjones: 28th May 2007 - 21:44 GMT

im actually building the george washington bridge for a project in school

kunle in Queens: 13th Jun 2007 - 06:10 GMT

I'll like to know how many bridges are in NYC and NYS?

Thanks

Thomas Callison : 12th Aug 2007 - 00:54 GMT

Throgs Neck Bridge is clean and pretty Bridge ever in my whole life and I love Throgs Neck Bridge

Throgs Neck Bridge : 12th Aug 2007 - 05:27 GMT

I love the beautiful Throgs Neck Bridge

Cars moving on Throgs Neck Bridge : 12th Aug 2007 - 21:08 GMT

Throgs Neck Bridge is a beautifiul bridge

Virginia Gambardella: 16th Aug 2007 - 19:29 GMT

Thats the Marine Bridge at Jamaica Bay at least that's what it was called in 1939,when you took the ferry from Sheepshead Bay to the point (Kennedys) and looked to the left there was the Marine Bridge.

John in the heights: 24th Sep 2007 - 17:49 GMT

Been trying to get an exact figure on this...how many bridges are connected to Manhattan?

anon (pool-71-187-201-119.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net): 15th Oct 2007 - 00:31 GMT

nice images.have you seen dave frieder's images http://www.davefrieder.com/
which is your favorite?any problems since 9/11?

anon (ool-18bd8432.dyn.optonline.net): 22nd Oct 2007 - 21:43 GMT

i like these pics thnx

Joe Kash: 18th Dec 2007 - 15:30 GMT

awesome, awesome post! bridges are the shiznit!! but yea man you forgot the bayonne and goethels bridge? who cares if they go to jersey...so does the gwb but you KNOW you had to put that one in there...

Mark Moskovitz: 1st Jan 2008 - 23:34 GMT

great pictures
How do I get a complete set of prints for my wife who is from NYC?

Carl Struyf: 9th Mar 2008 - 13:13 GMT

Nice foto's,i will collect some foto's of the port of Antwerp Belgium.
I'm the lock operator of the biggest lock's in the world,also doing some movable bridges in the port.
Nice collection of the NYC bridges.

Carl Struyf: 9th Mar 2008 - 13:22 GMT

Harold Sewell, NB Canada: 5th May 2008 - 15:30 GMT

Peter, thanks ever so much for this collection of bridges... I have traveled over many of them... and I also like the movie "Queens Logic" which has the Hell's Gate bridge in it.

Thanks again.

ante croatia: 8th Jun 2008 - 13:22 GMT

oooooh my god every bridge in new york has it's own charisma.i am 13 and i love all bridges especially suspension ones and cable stayed bridges but new york bridges-paradise for me.i especially love the ones on the east river and hudson river.i love u new york! i've been to new york when i was 8 but then, i didn't gave much attention to bridges.i remember that i saw brooklyn b. manhattan b. williamsburgh b. and several others.

Jim Isham: 12th Jun 2008 - 12:58 GMT

I would really like to see a map of where these bridges are located in NYC. It's great to see the pictures, so I can I.d them on the ground, but how about a location map? I grew up in the NYC area, and visit often, but I still do not know where all of these are on the ground after 62 years! Thank you so much for putting this together. It helps me a lot to get a sense of the place I am from. That is important to me. I know it sounds corny, but I DO love NY. Well, not the taxes, or the crime, but the people, and our accomplishments.

Jim Isham: 12th Jun 2008 - 12:58 GMT

I would really like to see a map of where these bridges are located in NYC. It's great to see the pictures, so I can I.d them on the ground, but how about a location map? I grew up in the NYC area, and visit often, but I still do not know where all of these are on the ground after 62 years! Thank you so much for putting this together. It helps me a lot to get a sense of the place I am from. That is important to me. I know it sounds corny, but I DO love NY. Well, not the taxes, or the crime, but the people, and our accomplishments.

Jim Isham: 12th Jun 2008 - 12:58 GMT

I would really like to see a map of where these bridges are located in NYC. It's great to see the pictures, so I can I.d them on the ground, but how about a location map? I grew up in the NYC area, and visit often, but I still do not know where all of these are on the ground after 62 years! Thank you so much for putting this together. It helps me a lot to get a sense of the place I am from. That is important to me. I know it sounds corny, but I DO love NY. Well, not the taxes, or the crime, but the people, and our accomplishments.

VALKYRIE: 6th Jul 2008 - 19:40 GMT

I brought my boat from upstate NY yesterday and was confronted with the Spyten Dyvil swing bridge in a closed position. There are no signs on the Hudson River side of the bridge with any information it is a swing bridge and it only opens at certin times and to get the operators attention you must call him on marine Ch.13.I post this for other boaters who might use this route to get into the East River. Call AMTRACK to be sure if and when it will open.

Peter: 7th Jul 2008 - 14:31 GMT

ch. 13 is pretty standard for such bridge communications. but beware that if you need the bridge to be opened, you need to contact them well in advance, as they have to work around the train schedules.

an easier tip, though, would be to check out the circle line schedule, and just go then, as the bridge opens several times a day, like clockwork, for the circle line tour boats to pass through. ive had good luck following them through on several occasions when i needed to get from the harlem river to the hudson under/through that bridge (yes, at low tide, small boats can fit underneath it)...