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Smile 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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The bridge was built in the 1930s, and was supposed to pay homage to the Brooklyn Bridge, and thus it was to have Beaux Art facade.

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I am open to new things, BUT I don't think there is anything scarier than riding a bike on the George Washington Bridge.

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New York City and especially Washington Heights are lucky to call this theirs.

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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.

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Jogging on the GWB.

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Legendary view from the George Washington Bridge

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Great views from that bridge but it's a blur because you're doing 80 just to keep up with the flow.
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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.



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