NEW YORK | George Washington Bridge | 604 FT | ≈ FLOORS | 1931
Opened to traffic
Upper level: October 25, 1931
Lower level: August 29, 1962
Bus Station opened: January 17, 1963
Length of bridge between anchorages: 4,760 feet
Width of bridge: 119 feet
Width of roadway: 90 feet
Height of tower above water: 604 feet
Water clearance at midspan: 212 feet
Number of toll lanes:
Upper level: 12
Lower level: 10
Palisades Interstate Parkway: 7*
* E-ZPass only overnight
This behemoth will turn 100 in 17 years (2031). As will the Empire State Building and in 2030 40 Wall and Chrysler. It will be the Roaring 20's all over again.
I say NYC starts at the Verrazano Bridge and ends at the George Washington Bridge. Manhattan however starts at the World Trade Center and ends at Columbia University.
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One man with courage is a majority - Thomas Jefferson
Like an elastic rubber ball or band, the bridge moves with the punches, the punches in this case being tons of automobile traffic. Bridge construction and engineering.
If you stop and think about it, the best song that encapsulates the GWB, and its connecting the urban and suburaban landscape is lighthouse by Patrick Watson. Ironically the GWB has a lighthouse at its foot.