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This article is about the bridge in New York City. For the bridge in New Westminster, British Columbia, see Queensborough Bridge.
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in 2010
Coordinates
40°45′25″N 73°57′16″W / 40.75694°N 73.95444°W / 40.75694; -73.95444Coordinates: 40°45′25″N 73°57′16″W / 40.75694°N 73.95444°W / 40.75694; -73.95444
Carries
9 lanes (4 upper, 5 lower) of NY 25, and 1 lane for pedestrians/bicycles
Crosses
East River
Locale
New York City (Manhattan–Queens)
Other name(s)
Queensboro Bridge, 59th Street Bridge
Maintained by
New York City Department of Transportation
Characteristics
Design
Double-decked Cantilever bridge
Total length
3,724 ft 6 in (1,135.2 m)
Width
100 ft (30 m)
Longest span
1,182 ft (360 m) (west span)
984 ft (300 m) (east span)
630 ft (192 m) (center span)
Clearance above
12 ft (3.7 m) (upper level)
Clearance below
130 ft (40 m)
History
Architect
Henry Hornbostel
Designer
Gustav Lindenthal
Engineering design by
Leffert L. Buck
Opened
March 30, 1909; 109 years ago (1909-03-30)
Statistics
Daily traffic
170,277 (2016)[1]
Toll
Free
Queensboro Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NYC Landmark
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Location
59th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Built
1909
Architect
Gustav Lindenthal (designer)
Henry Hornbostel (architect)
Architectural style
Beaux-Arts; through cantilever truss
NRHP reference #
78001879[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
December 20, 1978
Designated NYCL
April 16, 1974
Looking east from Manhattan toward Queens
Bridgemarket on Manhattan side
Constructing the upper level in 1907
During the Five Boro Bike Tour in 2008
Queensboro Bridge at night
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with the neighborhood of the Upper East Side Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island.
The Queensboro Bridge carries New York State Route 25, which terminates at the west (Manhattan) side of the bridge. The bridge once carried NY 24 and NY 25A as well. The western leg of the Queensboro Bridge is flanked on its northern side by the freestanding Roosevelt Island Tramway. The bridge was, for a long time, simply called the Queensboro Bridge, but in March 2011, the bridge was officially renamed in honor of former New York City mayor Ed Koch.
No tolls are charged for motor vehicles to use the bridge. The Queensboro Bridge is the first entry point into Manhattan in the course of the New York City Marathon and the last exit point out of Manhattan in the Five Boro Bike Tour.
Contents
1 Description
2 History
2.1 Construction and early history
2.2 Recent history
3 Public transportation
3.1 Rail tracks
3.2 Buses
4 In popular culture
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Description[edit]
The Queensboro Bridge is a two-level double cantilever bridge. It has two cantilever spans, one over the channel on each side of Roosevelt Island. The bridge does not have suspended spans, so the cantilever arm from each side reaches to the midpoint of the span.[3] The lengths of its five spans and approaches are as follows:
Manhattan to Roosevelt Island span length (cantilever): 1,182 ft (360 m)
Roosevelt Island span length: 630 ft (190 m)
Roosevelt Island to Queens span length (cantilever): 984 ft (300 m)
Side span lengths: 469 and 459 ft (143 and 140 m)
Total length between anchorages: 3,724 ft (1,135 m)
Total length including approaches: 7,449 ft (2,270 m)
Until it was surpassed by the Quebec Bridge in 1917, the span between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island was the longest cantilever span in North America.[4]
The upper level of the bridge has four lanes of automobile traffic, consisting of two roadways with two lanes in each directions. It provides a view of the bridge's cantilever truss structure and the New York skyline. Although the two upper level roadways both end at Thomson Avenue on the Queens side, they diverge in opposite directions on the Manhattan side. The lanes used by westbound traffic, located on the northern side of the bridge, lead north to 62nd and 63rd Streets. On the other hand, the lanes normally used by eastbound traffic are located on the southern side of the bridge lead south to 57th and 58th Streets. The roadway to 57th and 58th Streets is used as a westbound high-occupancy vehicle lane during rush hours.[5]
The lower level has five vehicular lanes, the inner four for automobile traffic and the southern outer lane for automobile traffic as well, used exclusively for Queens-bound traffic. The North Outer Roadway was converted into a permanent pedestrian walk and bicycle path in September 2000.[6]
The Manhattan approach to the bridge is supported on a series of Guastavino tile vaults which formed the elegant ceiling of the former Food Emporium Bridge Market and the restaurant Guastavino's, located under the bridge. Originally, this open air promenade was known as Bridgemarket and was part of Hornbostel's attempt to make the bridge more hospitable in the city.[7]
History[edit]
Construction and early history[edit]
Bridge circa 1908
Serious proposals for a bridge linking Manhattan to Long Island City were first made as early as 1838 and attempts to finance such a bridge were made by a private company beginning in 1867. Its efforts never came to fruition and the company went bankrupt in the 1890s.[8] Successful plans finally came about in 1903 – after the creation in 1898 of Greater New York City through the amalgamation of Manhattan (New York City), Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island[9] – under the new city's Department of Bridges, led by Gustav Lindenthal, who was appointed to the new position of Commissioner of Bridges in 1902, in collaboration with Leffert L. Buck and Henry Hornbostel, designers of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Construction soon began, but it would take until 1909 for the bridge to be completed due to delays from the collapse of an incomplete span during a windstorm, and from labor unrest, which included an attempt to dynamite one span. The bridge opened for public use on March 30, 1909,[10] having cost about $18 million and 50 lives. There was a ten-cent toll to drive over the bridge.[11] The bridge's ceremonial grand opening was held on June 12, 1909.[12] At the time, it was the fourth longest bridge in the world.[10] The grand opening included a fireworks display.[12] The bridge was then known as the Blackwell's Island Bridge, from an earlier name for Roosevelt Island.[13]
The bridge's upper level originally contained two pedestrian walkways and two elevated railway tracks (which connected a spur of the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line in Manhattan to the Queensboro Plaza station in Queens).[10] Three lanes of roadway were installed on the south side of the upper level in 1931, replacing the former upper-level walkway.[14] All service on the Second Avenue Elevated was discontinued in 1942.[15] From 1955 to 1958, two additional lanes were built on the upper level. The upper-level ramps on the Queens end of the bridge were built during the same time.[16]
The lower deck originally hosted four motor traffic lanes, and what is now the "outer roadway" and pedestrian walk were two trolley lanes.[10] A trolley connected passengers from Queens and Manhattan to a stop in the middle of the bridge, where passengers could take an elevator or the stairs down to Roosevelt Island.[17] The trolley operated from the bridge's opening until April 7, 1957.[18] The trolley lanes and mid-bridge station, as well as the stairs, were removed in the 1950s – the trolley's last run was on April 7, 1957[19] – and for the next few decades the bridge carried 11 lanes of automobile traffic.
In 1930, an elevator was built on the bridge to transport cars and passengers to what was then called Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island.[20][21] Then, in 1955, the Welfare Island Bridge from Queens opened, allowing automobile and truck access to the island and the only non-aquatic means in and out of the island; the vehicular elevator to Queensboro Bridge then closed,[20] but wasn't demolished until 1970.[21] However, as late as August 1973, a separate passenger elevator ran during the work week from near the Queens end of the bridge to Welfare Island via the Welfare Island Elevator Storehouse, which was described at the time as "clean but gloomy".[22][23]
There was also at one time what was known as the "upside-down" building on the north side of the bridge, because its main entrance was on the bridge. This provided access to the hospitals on the island. This building, which was located about where the current tram station is, has now been demolished.[19]
The bridge as seen from the 56th floor of the Citigroup Center
Recent history[edit]
After years of decay and corrosion, an extensive renovation of the bridge began in 1987 and completed in 2012, having cost over $300 million.
For a brief period in 1997, the traffic directions of the upper-level roadways were reversed during rush hours so that the upper level used a left-hand traffic pattern. Manhattan-bound traffic used the southern roadway while Queens-bound traffic used the northern roadway.[24] After residents of the Upper East Side voiced concerns about severe rush-hour congestion, this traffic pattern was discontinued, and the south-side walkway on the lower level was converted to a Queens-bound vehicular lane during the evening rush hour.[25] The outer roadway was later opened to vehicles at all times, but after a series of fatal crashes in 2013, officials decided to close the ramp during the nighttime.[26]
In March 2009, the New York City Bridge Centennial Commission sponsored events marking the centennial of the bridge's opening.[27] The bridge was also designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers during the year of its centennial anniversary.[4]
In December 2010, the city announced that the bridge would be renamed in honor of former Mayor Ed Koch from the Queensboro Bridge to the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.[28] The new name became official in March 2011. The renaming decision was unpopular among Queens residents and business leaders, and many local residents continue to refer to the bridge by its older name.[29][30][31] New York City Council member Peter Vallone, Jr. from Queens vowed to remove Koch's name from the bridge. Vallone said, "Never in a million years would they think to rename the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridges, but for some reason, it was OK to slap Queens around."[30]
Public transportation[edit]
The former trolley stop which served the Queensboro Bridge from 1909 to 1957
Rail tracks[edit]
In addition to the two elevated railway tracks, the bridge also had four streetcar tracks. The following Queens lines operated over the bridge:
Queensboro Bridge Local, 1909-1957 (last streetcar line in the city)
Astoria Line, 1910–1939
Steinway Line, 1910–1939
College Point Line, 1910–1925
Corona Line, 1910–1922
Queens Boulevard Line, 1913–1937
One Manhattan line operated over the bridge, the Third Avenue Railway's 42nd Street Crosstown Line from 1910 to 1950.
Buses[edit]
The bridge carries the Q32 local bus route operated by MTA New York City Transit and the Q60 and Q101 local bus routes operated by the MTA Bus Company. The bridge also carries 20 express bus routes in the eastbound direction only. (These bus routes use the Queens-Midtown Tunnel for westbound travel.) They are the MTA Bus Company's QM1, QM2, QM3, QM4, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8, QM10, QM12, QM15, QM16, QM17, QM18, QM20, QM21, and QM24, and New York City Transit's X63, X64 and X68.
In popular culture[edit]
For popular culture references to the tramway that involve the bridge in the background, see Roosevelt Island Tramway § In popular culture.
Literature
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway traverse the bridge on their way from Long Island to Manhattan. "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge," Nick says, "is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world".[13]
In E.B. White's novel Charlotte's Web, Charlotte tells Wilbur that the bridge took eight years to build, while she could have built a web in a night.
In the climax of Truman Capote's novel Summer Crossing, the main character commits suicide and murders three passengers by crashing her car into the Queensboro Bridge.
Music
The title of the Simon & Garfunkel song "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" refers to the Queensboro Bridge.[13] Harpers Bizarre covered the song in 1967, with the record rising to No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the musical group's best-selling hit.
It is also cited in the Jack's Mannequin song, "Diane, the Skyscraper," on the Dear Jack EP.
It is also mentioned by rapper and Queensbridge native MC Shan in his song "The Bridge".
It is the title of a track from the album Indiana by singer-songwriter David Mead.
The Long Island City Hip Hop group Mobb Deep filmed the music video for "Shook Ones (Part II)" on the bridge.
Film
In the 1932 Paramount Pictures light comedy film No Man of Her Own, starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Lombard's character looks out of her hotel window to a view across the East River and the Queensboro Bridge, and refers to "Blackwell's Island", now known as Roosevelt Island.
In the 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, the bridge is seen several times as the location of the city dump where the "forgotten men" live.
In Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan, the character played by Allen and Diane Keaton relax on a bench in front of it at dawn; it became the film's poster image.
The climax of the 1985 film Turk 182! takes place on and around the Queensboro Bridge.
In the 1991 film New Jack City, Nino Brown and the Duh Duh Man hang a man over the side of the bridge because of a drug debt he owes. Eventually they throw him off it to his death.
Billy Joel's video for his 1985 single "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" was primarily filmed on the bridge.
In the 1997 American action thriller film Conspiracy Theory, directed by Richard Donner, the bridge is crossed many times throughout the film.
In the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, the climax of the film takes place there where Spider-Man battles against his archenemy, the Green Goblin.
In the 2003 slapstick comedy film Anger Management, Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) and Dr. Buddy Rydell (played by Jack Nicholson), stop their car in the middle of the bridge to sing "I Feel Pretty".
The 2010 movie Salt has a scene that takes place on, and was filmed on, the Queensboro Bridge.
The Queensboro Bridge was featured in 2012 as one of the few remaining bridges in The Dark Knight Rises after Bane took control of the city.
The bridge was featured in the 2014 film, A Most Violent Year, in which there is an attempted hijacking of a fuel truck on it, followed by a short shootout and foot chase that leads down one of the bridge's service staircases. The bridge is referred to as the "59th Street Bridge" in the film.
Television
The Queensboro Bridge has been shown in the credits of the television series Archie Bunker's Place, The King of Queens, Taxi, Rescue Me and Alphas.
It is referred to in the opening theme of The King of Queens, in the line "...sitting here in traffic, on the Queensboro Bridge tonight."
The bridge is also referred to in The Simpsons episode "You Only Move Twice", when Hank Scorpio destroys it to show that he's not bluffing (though there is a possibility that the bridge collapsed on its own).
An illustration of the bridge by Aurore Giscard d'Estaing is used in the main title of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002).
The bridge is referenced often on the Internet television program/podcast Norm Macdonald Live by host Norm Macdonald when he tells his guest about how he discovered his cohost Adam Eget. The story often goes that Adam Eget would "jerk off punks for 15 bucks a man" under the bridge.
The upper deck of the bridge is shown in the opening sequence of the 70's TV series "Taxi" from a taxi driver's viewpoint.
Video games
The bridge was destroyed in the video game Crysis 2 when a facility on Roosevelt Island exploded, causing the bridge to violently collapse.
The bridge appears in the game Driver: Parallel Lines and is able to be traveled on foot or by car. During the mission "Kidnap" the player must blow up a billboard on the Manhattan side to block traffic.
The bridge is part of the Nintendo DS game C.O.P.: The Recruit.
See also[edit]
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New York
References[edit]
Notes
Jump up ^ "New York City Bridge Traffic Volumes" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. 2016. p. 9. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
Jump up ^ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
Jump up ^ "Project Page:2000 Biennial Bridge Inspection of the Queensboro Bridge over the East River". HAKS Corporation. Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b "Queensboro Bridge". ASCE Metropolitan Section. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
Jump up ^ "HOV Lanes". www.nyc.gov. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ "Queensboro Bridge Rehabilitation Program". New York City Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
Jump up ^ Dunlap, David W. (March 7, 1999). "Bridgemarket Emerging, After 22 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
Jump up ^ Queensboro Bridge (Historic Overview)
Jump up ^ Eldredge & Horenstein (2014), p.125
^ Jump up to: a b c d Staff (March 31, 1909). "Queensboro Bridge Opens to Traffic" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 2. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
Jump up ^ Staff (April 4, 1909) "White Maps New Bridge; Issues Bulletin of Instructions for Reaching Structure" The New York Times p.S4
^ Jump up to: a b Staff (June 13, 1909). "300,000 See Queens Linked to Old City" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b c Barron, James (March 29, 2009). "To Fans, Queensboro Bridge Is a Steel Swan, Not an 'Ugly Duckling'". The New York Times. p. A22. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Mayor Opens Deck on Queens Bridge; the Mayor Opens Another Bridge Remodeled for Traffic Needs" (PDF). The New York Times. 1931-06-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ "Manhattan East Side Transit Alternatives (MESA): Major Investment Study/Draft Environmental Impact Statement, August 1999". Metropolitan Transportation Authority, United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration. August 1999. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
Jump up ^ Feron, James (1958). "QUEENS SPAN JOB NEAR COMPLETION; 2 Lanes and New Ramps on Queensboro Bridge Due to Be Finished in May" (PDF). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ "Roosevelt Island Tramway". New York Correction History Society. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
Jump up ^ Phillips, McCandlish (April 7, 1957). "City's Last Trolley at End of Line; Buses Will Replace 49-Year Route on Queensboro Span" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b Eldredge & Horenstein (2014), p.126
^ Jump up to: a b McCandlish, Phillips (April 7, 1957). "City's Last Trolley at End of Line; Buses Will Replace 49-Year Route on Queensboro Span" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b "Transportation". Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
Jump up ^ Welch, Mary Scott (July 2, 1973). "Walking the City's Bridges". New York. p. 31. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ Petroff, John (August 27, 1973). "Bridge Bits" (letter to the editor)". New York. p. 5. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ Pierre-Pierre, Garry (1996-10-31). "Queensboro Bridge Entrances Will Exit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ Kennedy, Randy (1996-11-11). "Queensboro To Restore Old Routes As of Today". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ Nir, Sarah Maslin (2013-12-24). "Queensboro Bridge Lane to Be Closed Every Night". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
Jump up ^ "Queensboro Bridge Centennial Celebration Events and Exhibits". NYC Bridge Centennial Commission. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
Jump up ^ Bultman, Matthew & Fanelli, James (December 9, 2010). "Just call 59th Street Bridge the Ed Koch". New York Daily News. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
Jump up ^ Lisberg, Adam (February 28, 2011). "Queensboro Bridge should not be renamed after former Mayor Ed Koch, 70% of Queens biz leaders say". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on June 12, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b Hernandez, Javier C. (March 23, 2011). "Council Votes to Rename Queensboro Bridge for Koch". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
Jump up ^ Einhorn, Erin (March 23, 2011). "Queensborough renamed in honor of Koch". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
Bibliography
"Abandoned Stations: Queensborough Bridge Railway Termina"l
Eldredge, Niles & Horenstein, Sidney (2014). Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-27015-2.
Greater Astoria Historical Society and Roosevelt Island Historical Society (2008). The Queensboro Bridge. USA: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-5488-X.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queensboro Bridge.
NYC.gov
NYCroads.com
"Queensboro Bridge" on Transportation Alternatives
Dave's Electric Railroads Thirty-three historic photographs of the Queensborough Bridge Railway trolley cars
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NY-19, "Queensboro Bridge"
Queensboro Bridge at Structurae

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