Connecting Queens and the Bronx, this span opened in 1961 to ease congestion on the nearby Whitestone Bridge.
Day 375
The Throgs Neck
January 8th, 2013
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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Could the be an any more unattractive name for a bridge than Throgs Neck!?
No stay cables???
The stay cables on the Whitestone were a quick (and not super effective) fix for a problem that wasn’t known at the time the bridge was built. The Throgs Neck was designed many years later, so the engineer was able to avoid the problem from the start. According to Wikipedia:
“This was Ammann’s first long span job after 1940, which saw the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge in Washington State. Instead of employing a rather streamlined-looking plate-girder system, Ammann constructed his bridge with 28-foot (8.5 m) deep stiffening trusses under the deck. These would weight the bridge and allow any wind to simply blow through, instead of against, the bridge.”
Thanks Matt. Keep up the great job!
But where does that weird name come from?