Bridges in New York

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Verrazano Narrows Bridge

• suspension bridge (Staten Island/Brooklyn)
• Giovanni da Verrazano, the Narrow
• Othmar Hermann Amman Robert Moses
• span width 1298 meters
• finished 1964
• N.Y.C. marathon

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Throgs Neck Bridge

• suspension bridge (Queens / Bronx)
• Throggs Neck
• Othmar H. Amman Robert Moses
• total length 887 meters
• finished in 1961
• should relieve the Bronx-Whitestone-Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge

• suspension bridge (Manhattan/Brooklyn)
• New York and Brooklyn Bridge
• John August Roebling, Washington August Roebling
  Emily Warren Roebling
• total length 1834 meters
• finished in 1883
• 34 people died one day after the opening

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Queensboro Bridge

• cantilever bridge (Queens/Manhattan)
• 59th Street Bridge
• Gustav Lindenthal, Leffert L. Buck Henry
  Hornbostel
• finished 1909
• total length 1135 meters

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Triborough Bridge

• complex of three bridges (Bronx/Manhattan/Queens)
• East River supension bridge
• Harlem River lift bridge
• Bronx Kills truss bridge
• Robert Moses
• finished 1936

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Bear Mountain Bridge

• suspension bridge (Hudson River)
• Bear Mountain
• Finished 1924
• George Washington Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge

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Sources

• www.wikipedia.de
• www.bridgemeister.com
• www.nycroads.com
• de.structurae.de

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A presentationby

• Ann-Kathrin Hansmann
• Thanks for attention!