125th Street Hudson River bridge
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A bridge across the Hudson River between 125th Street in Manhattan, New York City and Cliffside Park or Fort Lee in New Jersey, was proposed by a study in 1954.[1] Othmar H. Ammann designed a double-deck suspension bridge similar to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which would build the bridge. The project never got beyond planning,[2] since funds were transferred to the Verrazano Bridge, which Robert Moses's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority had the power to build.[3] A Cross Harlem Expressway was to run across the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem to a second deck of the Triborough Bridge, also at 125th Street; this had also been proposed in 1929.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Ingraham, Joseph C. "Vast Traffic Study Planned By Port and Bridge Bodies; First Joint Effort to Ease Congestion Includes Proposals for New Spans and Expressways in Manhattan 2 AGENCIES START BIG TRAFFIC STUDY", The New York Times, February 15, 1954,
- ^ Darl Rastorfer, Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann, 2000, ISBN 0300080476, p. 173
- ^ Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker
- ^ Regional Plan Association, Regional Plan Association News, May 1964
