nyrmetros wrote:Any info on the tower over the Roosevelt Ave bridge? And any info on the bridge itself?
The "Roosevelt Avenue Bridge" was opened to pedestrian and vehicular traffic on May 14, 1927. Rapid transit trains of the then jointly operated (IRT-BMT) Flushing Line began running across the bridge on January 21, 1928.
It is a bascule bridge and the total length is 1806.5 feet including the approaches. The main span is 212 feet with a clearance of 25 feet above men high water. As built the bridge would open for maritime traffic on Flushing Creek. In the mid fifties it was permanently closed with permission of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Sources: "The Bridges of New York by Sharon Reier, Quadrant Press (1977)
A history of "The Astoria and Flushing Lines" by David Rogoff, New York Division ERA Bulletin , February and August 1962.
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