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A prefabricated 350-foot-long bridge that will replace a 109-year-old span across the Harlem River arrived Monday aboard two barges that were pushed and pulled by tugboats.
The 2,400-ton swing bridge passed under the Brooklyn Bridge at 8 a.m., on its way to its home, just south of the old Willis Avenue
The new bridge connecting Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx will replace a span that opened in 1901 and carries more than 70,000
The new bridge was built for the transportation department at a privately owned port in Coeymans, near Albany. Two weeks ago, a On Monday, the span was hauled from Bayonne 15 miles north through the East River to its final destination.
The last leg of the journey was via the East River because the load's height, 82 feet from the barges' decks to the bridge's top crossbeam,
Getting 4.8 million pounds of steel onto the barges two weeks ago required four 50-foot-long steel ramps connecting the vessels' decks to
All the heavy lifting was carried out by a crew from Mammoet, a Dutch company that specializes in moving extraordinarily large objects.
Barend Schuring, Mammoet's project manager for the bridge job, said each barge was 180 feet long and, when welded together, had a
A crew from Weeks Marine Inc. was handling the bridge transportation in a joint venture with the Kiewit Corp., the Omaha, Neb.-based
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