Tag: Bridges
Today at 10:30 AM, a ribbon cutting ceremony will formally mark the reopening of High Bridge after more than 40 years. Completed in 1848 and originally designed to help bring fresh water to the city, the historic pedestrian span was constructed over three decades before the Brooklyn Bridge existed, making it New York’s longest standing […]
The MTA released excellent photos and a video of the baby and adult peregrine falcons that live atop the Throgs Neck, Verrazano, and Marine Park Bridges. According to the MTA, every year at the end of May, DEC scientist Chris Nadareski climbs the bridges and puts identifying bands on the newly-hatched chicks. The chicks are […]
It took them over 2 hours, but cops were able to talk a suicidal woman off the ledge and back to safety when she tried to jump off the Kosciuszko Bridge on Monday, the New York Post reports. The woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital. According to a witness, she is a Polish immigrant with […]
What if a bridge could also be a community center? That’s what architect Sunggi Park envisioned in his Harvard thesis project “Re-configurable Infrastructure,” which just got a special mention in the annual d3 Unbuilt Visions competition — an annual celebration of visionary and theoretical architecture across the world. Using the Queensboro Bridge as an example, […]
Da Nang, Vietnam can now lay claim to holding the world’s largest bridge in the shape of a dragon. Built to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the bridge cost $85 million, is about a tenth of a mile long and six traffic lanes wide, contains 2,500 LED lights, and […]
