Queensboro Bridge
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Queensboro Bridge
Viewed from the southwest (Manhattan side) in March, 2005
(c) 2005 by Michael Minn (michaelminn.com)
BH Photo #117466
Facts
- 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; elevated railway removed 1942, trolleys removed 1955
- Builders
- - Buckley Realty Construction Co. of New York City, New York (Queens Approach)
- Gustav Lindenthal of Brno, Cisleithania, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Now known as Brno, South Moravia, Czech Republic)
- Snare & Triest Co. of New York City, New York (Manhattan Approach)
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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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 on December 20, 1978
- Also called
- 59th Street Bridge (common name)
Blackwell's Island Bridge (original name)
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (Official name since March 2011) - 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)
- Quadrangle map:
- Central Park
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 96,662
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 78001879 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 26672 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 88.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 3, 2022: New photos from Dave King
- April 29, 2021: New photo from Dave King
- March 14, 2020: New photo from Patrick Gurwell
- November 23, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- November 22, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 14, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- March 2, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- January 2, 2019: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- November 9, 2017: New photos from Dave King
- March 27, 2017: New photo from Nick Schmiedeler
- August 22, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added official name.
- July 15, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
- 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 - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- New York Times - Article
- Nathan Holth
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Geoff Hubbs
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
The Bridge Girl
Is this the bridge in the movie Salt?
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.
Lower Level:
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:
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ny/queens/queensboro/
My favorite NYC bridge... Hey, it's a truss!