Download or read book Hudson River Bridges written by Kathryn W. Burke and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hudson River Bridges documents how these structures remain beautiful testaments to cooperative efforts during trying times in America's history. The Hudson River Valley, an invaluable connection between New England and the rest of the colonies during the American Revolution, continues to be a major crossroads today. The Hudson River bridges were architectural marvels of their time. The Bear Mountain Bridge was the longest suspension bridge, while the Newburgh Beacon second span was built with a new type of weathering steel. The bridges were constructed during important times in history. The Bear Mountain Bridge was built as the automobile became an integral part in the country's development, and the Mid-Hudson Bridge was built during the Depression. Labor disputes helped develop labor laws, and world wars led to changes in activity on the bridges.
Download or read book Crossing the Hudson written by Donald E. Wolf and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald E. Wolf simultaneously tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded new ways to cross the river. As a result, innovative engineering was created to provide for these resources.
Download or read book Bridge Across the Hudson River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bridges of the Mid Hudson Valley written by Kathryn W. Burke and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson River bridges, iconic structures of the New York State Bridge Authority, are the cornerstone of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Opened in 1924, the Bear Mountain Bridge was the first vehicular crossing of the Hudson River, south of Albany. Twentieth-century growth in the Hudson Valley can be traced to each bridge opening, the result of grassroot efforts by local residents. The Mid-Hudson Bridge, named for the region these bridges span, was designated an "Engineering Epic" following the tipping of the east caisson that delayed construction for a year while engineers and laborers struggled to right that caisson in the waters of the Hudson River. The plan for the Rip Van Winkle Bridge required the creation of the New York State Bridge Authority, when funding was otherwise impossible during the Great Depression. Three more bridges were built connecting remaining areas of the Mid-Hudson region. The last crossing became the "twin spans" of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, the New York State Bridge Authority's most traveled span. In 2010, the New York State Bridge Authority gained ownership of the bridge structure of the Walkway Over the Hudson, a pedestrian walkway built on the old Poughkeepsie Bridge, which opened for trains in 1889.
Download or read book Bridge Across Hudson River at New York City to be Constructed by North River Bridge Co written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hudson River Bridges written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (74) S. 1645, (74) S. 3030.
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Download or read book Politics Across the Hudson written by Philip Mark Plotch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter Journalism Award The State of New York is now building one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge, recently renamed for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, the state's governor from 1983 to 1994. He reveals valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies while also confirming our worst fears about government dysfunction. Drawing on his extensive experience planning megaprojects, interviews with more than a hundred key figures—including governors, agency heads, engineers, civic advocates, and business leaders—and extraordinary access to internal government records, Plotch tells a compelling story of high-stakes battles between powerful players in the public, private, and civic sectors. He reveals how state officials abandoned viable options, squandered hundreds of millions of dollars, forfeited more than three billion dollars in federal funds, and missed out on important opportunities. Faced with the public’s unrealistic expectations, no one could identify a practical solution to a vexing problem, a dilemma that led three governors to study various alternatives rather than disappoint key constituencies. This revised and updated edition includes a new epilogue and more photographs, and continues where Robert Caro’s The Power Broker left off and illuminates the power struggles involved in building New York’s first major new bridge since the Robert Moses era. Plotch describes how one governor, Andrew Cuomo, shrewdly overcame the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of onerous environmental regulations, vehement community opposition, insufficient funding, interagency battles, and overly optimistic expectations...
Download or read book North River Bridge Co written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossings of the Hudson River written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Bridges over the Hudson River, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Gateway Project, Poughkeepsie Bridge, Access to the Region's Core, George Washington Bridge, NY Waterway, Tappan Zee Bridge, Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel, List of fixed crossings of the Hudson River, Bear Mountain Bridge, Newburgh-Beacon Ferry, Uptown Hudson Tubes, North River Tunnels, List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York City, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Mid-Hudson Bridge, Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry, Maiden Lane Bridge, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, Dunn Memorial Bridge, Livingston Avenue Bridge, Downtown Hudson Tubes, Green Island Bridge, Castleton Bridge, Patroon Island Bridge, Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge, Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Stillwater Bridge, Collar City Bridge, Menands Bridge, 112th Street Bridge, Troy-Waterford Bridge, Mechanicville Bridge, Schuylerville Bridge, Riparius Bridge, North Creek Bridge, The Glen Bridge, Thurman Station Bridge, Congress Street Bridge, Lists of crossings of the Hudson River. Excerpt: The Gateway Project is a proposed American rail expansion project to build a high-speed rail right-of-way and to alleviate the bottleneck along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City. The project would create routing alternatives and add 25 train slots during peak periods to the current system used by Amtrak (AMTK) and New Jersey Transit (NJT). The project was unveiled in February 2011 after the 2010 cancellation of the somewhat similar Access to the Region's Core (ARC) project. It is planned to cost $13.5 billion and be completed in 2020. Amtrak has pledged $50 million for further engineering and planning studies, but additional financing has not been secured. The planned route parallels the current one crossing the New Jersey Meadowlands and the Hudson River between Newark Penn...
Download or read book Bridge Across the Hudson River at New York City written by United States War Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bridge Across the Hudson River at New York City: March 21, 1890; Report Sec. 8. That the said North River Bridge Company shall maintain on the bridge, at its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or signals as the United States light-house Board shall prescribe. Sec. 9. Tha nothing in this act shall be held or construed to in any manner in volve the United States Government in any pecuniary obligations whatever, other than the payment of tolls over said bridge and approaches for troops and munitions of war, for which no higher charge per mile shall be made than the rate paid to rail roads connecting with said bridge; but Congress hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act as the contingencies of commerce or the public good may re quire, and said company shall further be subject to the provisions of the interstate commerce laws, and any amendments and supplements thereof. The bill is by this substitute amended so as to embrace substantially the recommendations of the Secretary of War. The committee have further provided by the new section, incorporated in the substitute as section 7, that the real and personal property of said company shall be subject to taxation in the States of New York and New Jersey the same as other real and personal property therein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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