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Bronx Whitestone Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Bronx Whitestone Bridge, colloquially referred to as the "Whitestone Bridge", is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River and connects the boroughs of Queens and The Bronx. The Bronx Whitestone Bridge is owned by the City of New York and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York). The bridge was designed similarly to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, Washington, which collapsed during a windstorm in 1940. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bronx-Whitestone_Bridge   (398 words)

Whitestone Expressway (I-678) From the Flushing River Bridge north to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the NYSDOT is rebuilding and improving the geometry of the main roadways, make improvements to the electrical and sewer systems, install a new ITS system, and construct new sound barriers. During the late 1980's, the NYSDOT rehabilitated the northbound and southbound lanes of the expressway at EXIT 14 (Linden Place), as well as the southbound bridge over the Flushing River. The NYSDOT is rebuilding the elevated roadways connecting the Whitestone Expressway to the Van Wyck Expressway. www.nycroads.com /roads/whitestone   (1295 words)

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (I-678) The deck width-to-main span ratio was 1:72 for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, versus 1:33 for the George Washington Bridge and 1:31 for the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. In anticipation of the bridge, developers built the upscale neighborhoods of Malba, Beechhurst in the northern Queens community of Whitestone, along the East River shoreline. The new bridge was to be administered by Moses' new Triborough Bridge Authority. www.nycroads.com /crossings/bronx-whitestone   (2891 words)

New York Architecture Images-Throgs Neck Bridge Opened in 1961, the Throgs Neck Bridge was built between the Bronx and Queens to ease congestion on the Bronx Whitestone Bridge. The anchorages of the Throgs Neck Bridge, like those of the nearby Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, are austere in design. The two 360-foot-tall towers, which are only 22 feet shorter than those of the older Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, are built of two steel columns of closed-box construction. www.nyc-architecture.com /BRI/BRI008-ThrogsNeckBridge.htm   (1158 words)

Bridges and Tunnels in New York and New Jersey in the United States The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the Goethals Bridge and the Outerbridge Crossing of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey without non-motorized access pose substantial problems. All of its bridges did have non-motorized access, but it has become less friendly to non-motorists since the sidewalks on the Outerbridge Crossing and the Goethals Bridge are out and the sidewalk on the George WASHINGTON Bridge is closed overnight. As the East River Bridges set forth in §4-07(i) of the New York City Department of Transportation are free of tolls with excessive traffic during peak hours, the Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project and others propose tolling these bridges. www.geocities.com /jusjih/us-ny-nj-bridges-tunnels.html   (5709 words)

Representative Crowley Whitestone is a neighborhood in north central Queens, bounded to the north by the East River, to the east by Clearview Expressway, to the south by Bayside Avenue and 29th Avenue, and to the west by Whitestone Expressway. Much of Whitestone is upper middle class; the original village and the area south of the parkway are covered by houses and tree-lined streets. During a period of rapid development in the 1920s the southern section was enlarged; streets were laid out and houses built on former farmlands. crowley.house.gov /newyork/whitestone.htm   (374 words)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge: "Galloping Gertie" Collapses November 7, 1940 He admitted that two of his latest bridges (the Deer Island Bridge and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) were experiencing similar movements, though on a much smaller scale. They were taking a close look at the bridge's insurance policies, hoping to replace them with new ones that carried a lower premium payment. the extreme twisting waves of the roadway, magnified by the aerodynamic effect of wind on the sides of the bridge, began to rip the span. www.wsdot.wa.gov /TNBhistory/Connections/connections3.htm   (2417 words)

Wired New York Forum - Bronx-Whitestone Bridge On the Bronx side are the residential communities of Unionport and Schuylerville and connections to the Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bruckner Expressway, and the Cross Bronx Expressway. Today, the bridge looks as modern and elegant as when it served as the gateway to the fair's "World of Tomorrow." As part of the massive bridge project two major recreational areas were developed, Ferry Point Park in the Bronx and Francis Lewis Park in Queens. In anticipation of the bridge, developers built the upscale neighborhoods of Malba, Beechhurst in the northern Queens community of Whitestone, along the East River shoreline. www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3018&pp=50   (2750 words)

Nab's Infrastructure Projects As part of the recent rehabilitation of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Nab removed existing stiffening trusses which were added to the bridge during the mid 1940s. Now completed, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has been restored to its sleek former beauty as designed by famed bridge builder, Othmar Ammann. The bridge, built in 1939, was designed and built without the trusses, used to stiffen the bridge. www.nabconstruction.com /infr.html   (342 words)

BRIDGES 1999 One of MTA, Bridges and Tunnel’s busiest bridges is the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which opened to traffic in 1939 in time for the opening day of the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. This six-lane cable suspension bridge spans the East River connecting Queens to the Bronx. To ensure maximum safety of the bridge, careful monitoring and comparisons were made of both the air inside and outside the bridge’s anchorage chambers. www.roadsbridges.com /rb/index.cfm/powergrid/rfah=cfap=/CFID/78173/CFTOKEN/82845844/fuseaction/showArticle/articleID/1371   (954 words)

Malcolm Pirnie - Locations- WHITE PLAINS Office The exit requires that you be in the right lane on the upper level, or in the left lane on the lower level, at the east end of the bridge. I-95 will split approximately 6-8 miles after the bridge, stay to the left and you will see sign for New England. Take exit 22 (Midland Avenue) and bear right towards Port Chester. www.pirnie.com /PirnieOffices/Office-WHI.htm   (2828 words)

Queens Chronicle - Northern/NorthEastern Edition Opened in 1939, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge was the first to connect Queens and the Bronx in time for that year’s World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Park. As if work on the Whitestone Expressway is not bad enough for motorists, MTA officials announced last week that ongoing rehabilitation of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge will last another five years. The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge from Francis Lewis Park in Whitestone. www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1862&dept_id=152512&newsid=10435699&PAG=461&rfi=9   (487 words)

Weidlinger: Bridges First true cable-stayed bridge in the city connecting dormitories to main campus and spanning a divided entrance to the FDR Drive. Analysis of two-girder steel bridge to determine cause of floor beam web cracking, which was differential displacement of deck and girder flanges. Three-span bridge with 100 foot center span and 84 foot end spans with precast prestressed beams 5 foot 2 inch deep on 7 foot centers. www.wai.com /Transportation/Projects/proj-bridges.html   (1662 words)

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Rehab He added that the concrete roadway deck from Ferry Point in The Bronx to the bridge’s Queens terminus at Francis Lewis Park would be replaced with an orthotropic deck welded metal deck that is also lighter and stronger. MTA Bridge and Tunnel representatives were scheduled to meet with City Councilmember Tony Avella on May 26 to plan so that his district and constituents would be disturbed as little as possible during the work. The bridge was reinforced with stiffening trusses several decades ago in an effort to make the structure less susceptible to twisting in strong wind, Pascual explained. www.qgazette.com /news/2005/0525/Front_Page/002.html   (1290 words)

MTA Newsroom As the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge nears 65 years old (next April), it has just completed a rehabilitation program that upgrades the facility, lightens the structure and restores it to the classic profile it had when it opened the day before the New York World’s Fair in 1939. These trusses were originally added to the bridge in 1946 to stiffen the facility and improve the bridge’s resistance to wind. With the emergence of new technologies and advances in aerodynamic analysis, these heavy trusses have been replaced with a lightweight fiberglass aerodynamic fairing, triangular in shape that is being installed along both sides of the bridge that slices the wind as it passes over the bridge. www.mta.nyc.ny.us /mta/news/newsroom/bt-031024-bw.htm   (291 words)

Chas H. Sells, Inc. Project Spotlights Reconfiguring the Queens interchange ramps to and from the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. The Throgs Neck Bridge feasibility study to add Throgs Neck Bridge ramps to the northbound Cross Island Parkway and the southbound Cross Island Parkway. Due to the high-volume area, it will be essential that the design team correlate each aspect of the study to maximize the benefits of the proposed improvements, minimize disruptions to the traveling public and TBTA toll revenue during construction, and to provide long-term improvements which will satisfy the long term needs of this vital corridor. www.chashsells.com /Showcase/projects/BronxWhitestone.htm   (147 words)

Manhattan Bridge The Manhattan Bridge, with its seven lanes of vehicular traffic and four rapid transit tracks over New York's East River, is a major artery connecting the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The work included stiffening the bridge truss to resist cracking and twist (after evaluating 13 remedial schemes), replacing non-functioning pin-and-link hangers with multi-rotational bearings, and redecking the entire lower roadway including replacement of stringers and floorbeams. Preparation of plans for the rehabilitation of the west side approaches and partial reconstruction of the suspended spans was one of several large Manhattan Bridge inspection and rehabilitation contracts that have been completed by Weidlinger Associates. www.wai.com /Transportation/Bridges-long/manhattan.html   (335 words)

New York Daily News - Boroughs - Whitestone face-lift The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority has begun slimming the bridge down, removing the bulky 15-foot-high steel trusses that line both sides of the span in favor of sleeker, high-tech fiberglass fairings. The unsightly trusses, which resemble a train trestle, were added in 1946 to protect the suspension bridge's 2,300-foot main span after high winds led to the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State in 1940. The MTA also plans to replace the bridge's thick cement decking next year with new steel and asphalt, similar to renovations made to the Triborough and the Marine Park bridges. www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/story/123356p-110785c.html   (604 words)

New York’s Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Span to Feature 390 Composite Wind Fairings During past bridge inspections, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), the division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City that operates the bridge, discovered that the existing cables of the suspension bridge were not performing to design capacity. The existing stiffening trusses, added to the bridge in the mid-1940s to give it greater stability in windy conditions, will be removed permanently from the bridge, consequently decreasing the overall weight of the bridge. The advantage of composite wind fairings is evidenced by the decreased weight load to the bridge and added longevity of the parts due to the superior corrosion resistance of composites. www.netcomposites.com /news.asp?1521   (507 words)

New York City The bridge project also included the development of two major recreational areas, Ferry Point Park in the Bronx and Francis Lewis Park in Queens. The Art Deco suspension bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, has a main span of 2,300 feet, the 23rd longest in the world. Although speculators had first proposed a bridge spanning the East River in 1905, Queens residents fought the plan. www.nynewsday.com /features/custom/ithappened/newyork/ny-ihny0227story,0,2162053.htmlstory   (235 words)

McKEE SQUARE - Historical Sign Beginning in 1905, speculators proposed the construction of a bridge spanning the East River to connect Whitestone, Queens, to Ferry Point in the Bronx. Moses received authorization to build the Bronx-Whitestone bridge from the New York State Legislature in April 1937, and construction commenced on June 1, 1937. McKee Square is located at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge approach to the Southern State Parkway. www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=8748   (468 words)

NY1: The Bronx Drivers can expect some added delays on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge over the next year while the MTA repairs the deck. The MTA began repairing the bridge's 66-year-old roadway deck Friday night. The Bronx native joined New York 1 in 1997. www.ny1.com /ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=12&aid=51311   (228 words)

design failure lessons - case 1: article 5 "Widely acclaimed for its slenderness and grace," the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, like Gertie, was designed and built during a "decay" phase of the stiffening truss. However, the Whitestone bridge was never a galloper. Finch, of Columbia University, by-lined an article in ENR titled "Wind Failures of Suspension Bridges or Evolution and Decay of the Stiffening Truss." He recounted numerous instances of aerodynamic instability--some ending in collapse of the structures--dating back to the earliest years of modern suspension bridges. www.me.utexas.edu /~me179/topics/lessons/case1articles/case1article5.html   (250 words)

Fiboro Bridges - Bronx-Whitestone Bridge There were also once two pedestrian walkways on the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge but they were removed in 1946. At that time the roadway was widened from four to six lanes, and its designation changed from parkway to expressway. For more information, visit MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Steve Anderson's Bridges site. www.transalt.org /bridges/whitston.html   (204 words)

Interstate 678 New York @ Interstate-Guide.com The bridges in the background are part of the Bruckner Interchange, the transition of the Cross-Bronx Expressway from Interstate 295 north to Interstate 95 south and the transfer of the Bruckner Expressway from Interstate 278 east to Interstate 95 north. Interstate 678 southbound departs for the tolled Bronx-Whitestone Bridge while Interstate 95 prepares to depart from the Cross-Bronx Expressway onto the Bruckner Expressway at Interstate 295/Exit 12. Traffic continuing south will reach the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge toll plaza in one mile and the borough of Queens in three. www.interstate-guide.com /i-678_ny.html   (802 words)

East River - NYWiki There is a lift bridge, which is supposed to open on 15 minutes notice while the restriction is in effect. In a boat with a deep fin keel, it can feel something like crossing a steel-grating bridge on a motorcycle, but you aren't in danger of falling so just enjoy it. Until September 5, 2004, the Coast Guard has closed the passage west of Roosevelt Island to recreational boats, which must pass east of the island. www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/East_River   (277 words)

Structurae [en]: Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (1939) HAER: Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Spanning East River between Whitestone, Queens& t, Bronx, Bronx County, NY LCPC Image Gallery: Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Ammann, Othmar H. Planning and Design of Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", April 1939, n. After the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a stiffening truss and cable-stays are installed in order to make the bridge more stable in adverse wind conditions. en.structurae.de /structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000010   (261 words)

Jeff's Photo Gallery: Shield Sign for Whitestone Bridge Similar to the white shield signs for the Throgs Neck, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge had blue shields steering motorists towards it. The Queens touchdown point of the Whitestone is only about a mile and a half northwest of the Throgs. Though it is formally named the Bronx-Whitestone, most people refer to it simply as "The Whitestone". streetlights.tripod.com /signs/phwsbsgn.htm   (74 words)

Newsday.com - Beach Traffic Bronx Whitestone Bridge Toll Plaza - Queens Bound on the Bronx side Bronx Whitestone Bridge Toll Plaza - Bronx Bound on the Bronx side Triboro Bridge Bronx Bound on the Bronx side Toll Plaza cf.newsday.com /news/ryebeachtraffic.cfm   (256 words)

ipedia.com: Othmar Ammann Article Othmar Ammann was a renowned civil engineer whose designs include: George Washington Bridge Bayonne Bridge Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Throg's Neck Bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge He received his engineer... He started out working for Gustav Lindenthal but by 1925 had been appointed bridge engineer to the New York Port Authority and his design for a bridge over the Hudson River had been accepted in preference to one developed by Lindenthal. A description of the design of the George Washington Bridge and Ammann's rivalry with Lindenthal www.ipedia.com /othmar_ammann.html   (186 words)

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