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Alexander Hamilton Bridge

Moses, Robert
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Cross-Bronx Expressway
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/25476
Date
1960-1963
Description
The Alexander Hamilton Bridge carries eight lanes of traffic over the Harlem River in New York City between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, connecting the Trans-Manhattan Expressway in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and the Cross-Bronx Expressway, as part of Interstate 95. The bridge opened to traffic on January 15, 1963, the same day that the Cross-Bronx Expressway was completed. For 2005, the New York City Department of Transportation, which operates and maintains the bridge, reported average annual daily traffic volume in both directions of 181,566; having reached a peak AADT of 192,848 in 1990.[1]. The total length of bridge, including approaches, is 2,375 feet (724 m). The parallel main spans of the steel arch bridge stretch 555 feet (169 m) long over the Harlem River and provide 103 ft (31 m) of vertical clearance at the center and 366 ft (112 m) of horizontal clearance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Bridge CD 2/25/2008The Cross Bronx Expressway is a major expressway (freeway) in the New York City borough of the Bronx. It helps carry traffic on Interstate 95 through the city, and serves as a portion of Interstate 295 towards Long Island; a portion is also designated U.S. Route 1. The Cross Bronx begins at the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River, where the Trans-Manhattan Expressway continues west across Upper Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge. While I-95 leaves at the Bruckner Interchange in Throgs Neck, following the Bruckner Expressway and New England Thruway to Connecticut, the Cross Bronx Expressway Extension continues east, carrying I-295 to the merge with the Throgs Neck Expressway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Bronx_Expressway CD 2/25/2008
 
full view, roadway seen from on bridge
 
Type of Work
Bridge (built work); Highway
Subject
Highways, Roads, Transportation, Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.), Bronx (New York, N.Y.), Interstate 95
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(c) Carnegie Slide Collection
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