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Queensboro Bridge

Queens County, New York, and New York County, New York
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Queensboro Bridge

Viewed from the southwest (Manhattan side) in March, 2005

(c) 2005 by Michael Minn (michaelminn.com)

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Overview
Cantilevered through truss bridge over East River on NY 25 in New York
Location
New York City, Queens County, New York, and New York County, New York
Status
Open to a total of 10 lanes of traffic
History
Opened to traffic March 30, 1909
Builder
- Gustav Lindenthal
Design
Cantilevered through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 1,182.0 ft.
Total length: 3,724.0 ft. (0.7 mi.)
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
59th Street Bridge (common name)
Blackwell's Island Bridge (original name)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.75683, -73.95433   (decimal degrees)
40°45'25" N, 73°57'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/588265/4512289 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Central Park
Inventory numbers
NRHP 78001879 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 26672 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2010)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 73.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
17,026

Categories 

Cantilevered (242)
Cantilevered truss (222)
East River (6)
Functionally obsolete (7,040)
Gustav Lindenthal (10)
HAER documented (782)
Have street view (9,896)
NR-listed (2,354)
New York (1,767)
New York City, New York (139)
 New York County, New York (68)
Open (28,314)
Owned by city (3,052)
Pin-connected (1,521)
Queens County, New York (26)
Span length over 1000 feet (105)
Through truss (9,210)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
Truss (23,574)

Update Log 

  • April 2, 2010: New photos from Jason Smith
  • July 15, 2008: New photo from Michael Minn

Sources 

  • HAER NY-19 - Queensboro Bridge, Spanning East river & Blackwell's Island, New York, New York County, NY
  • Wikipedia
  • Michael Minn
  • Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
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Queensboro Bridge
Posted July 31, 2010, by James Simmons

Is this the bridge in the movie Salt?

Queensboro Bridge
Posted April 17, 2008, by Kevin Wong (R36Redbird [at] yahoo [dot] com)

More images:

The second and third of this set cover the outer north pedestrian lane, the next two give a detail of the Queens tower and the last is a view of the bridge from the Queens side.

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Queensboro Bridge
Posted August 4, 2007, by Kevin Wong (R36Redbird [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Lower Level:

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Queensboro Bridge
Posted August 4, 2007, by Kevin Wong (R36Redbird [at] yahoo [dot] com)

West main span 1182 feet

Center span (Roosevelt Island) 630 feet

East main span 684 feet

Total length from abutment to abutment 7449 feet.

Upper level 4 reversible lanes (max clearance 12'-no trucks). 4 lanes lower lanes, plus one south outer lane (eastbound only) and north outer lane dedicated for pedestrians and bicycles.

Queensboro Bridge images, including the upper level:

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