Bronx-Whitestone Bridge: 75 Years

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  • čas přidán 7. 04. 2014
  • Learn more about MTA Bridges and Tunnels' Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, celebrating it's seventy-fifth anniversary this month.

Komentáře • 51

  • @smartsavvyandloved2095
    @smartsavvyandloved2095 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Most beautiful bridge to drive over. Drove over with my parent's and family many times over❤

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network Před 5 lety +15

    Interesting story. This bridge was opened a year before the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge was being planned. and then opened in July 1940, and then, tragedy struck later in November of that year, due to high and heavy winds, the span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge rocked back and forth until the entire span has finally collapsed completely.

    • @phuturephunk
      @phuturephunk Před 3 lety +3

      This is why they outfitted it with a warren truss along the center span once Tacoma happened. Due to the East River (and really the Sound since past the throgs neck to the east, the sound starts it's widening to the full extent) the wind across it can be pretty severe, which would cause mild resonance galloping, which in turn caused people who were in traffic to panic, dump their cars and then bolt, on foot, down the bridge. Amman's original vision was an unobstructed view, but the truss interfered with it for decades until they ripped it out in the early aughts (iirc) and replaced it with the triangular faring that you see in the video. This 'cuts' the wind and, along with the deck lightening work and mass dampers eliminates the original galloping problem. You can still see a remnant of the truss at the very center of the center span when driving it today.

  • @ljliljohn
    @ljliljohn Před 7 lety +29

    When the bridge was being built, I had a great view from my house on the corner of 128th st. and 9th ave. in College Point, across Powells cove. I was 7 years old in 1939 when the bridge was opened.

    • @tommypetraglia4688
      @tommypetraglia4688 Před 5 lety +10

      ljliljohn
      Greetings. When my parents brought me from Parsons Hospital in Flushing when I was born to our home 26 Ave and Utopia Pkwy, Oct 1960, my father took a picture of my mother holding me standing in front of our house and above the roof you can see the cranes raising the Throgs Neck Bridge.
      I remember being about 4 seeing that picture and they told me they started building it when I was born so from that day I called it my bridge because I thought they built it for me.
      I moved to CT when I was 13. At 35 I went work on a tugboat towing cement and fuel oil from New York going most times East up the East River through Flushing Bay then under the Whitestone and then Throgs Neck Bridge into LI Sound and points East and of course reverse that traveling inbound.
      On average we made that trip once every 2 weeks and in the 12 years I decked, I must've passed under my bridge 100 times, all times of the day, all types of weather, any day of the year.
      When pushing with a rope boat, no wire winch, the rope hauser is made up to the push cables and led back to the capstan to snug the boat fast in the barge notch. However it is set, it is one and done... as tight as you got it at the dock is as tight as it is going to get, except in a turn as one sides slacks you can suck in a little more rope.
      Passing under the Throgs Neck was one of those turns... 10° port into LI Sound.
      So if we were outbound and it was my watch, I was always on deck passing under the Throgs Neck Bridge... my bridge

    • @mikegruber172
      @mikegruber172 Před 4 lety

      @@tommypetraglia4688 was that the same as Flushing Hospital?

    • @mikegruber172
      @mikegruber172 Před 4 lety

      @@tommypetraglia4688 now closed

    • @dzgaming1
      @dzgaming1 Před 3 lety

      @@mikegruber172 no its open

  • @dmkahn22
    @dmkahn22 Před 10 lety +16

    A beautiful bridge .. never really gets a lot of recognition. Growing up on LI, I've crossed it many times.

    • @SquidCena
      @SquidCena Před 5 lety

      David Kahn i cross it today going to queens and or brookyln...

    • @trainrover
      @trainrover Před 3 lety

      they're laughing in your faces...those robo Hazbn York staff have that telling COULDN'T GIVE A TOSS look written ALL OVER THEIR FACES :pfft:

    • @trainrover
      @trainrover Před 3 lety

      kleptoparasites => CUCKOOS

    • @yell0wberry
      @yell0wberry Před 2 lety

      It’s definitely a fun cross on the Q 44

  • @toters2724
    @toters2724 Před 4 lety +7

    and now, 80 years old.

  • @NickPWilde-el1tx
    @NickPWilde-el1tx Před 4 lety +4

    Happy birthday Whitestone Bridge! Enjoy the facelift. You'd make Joan Rivers proud.

  • @osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624

    What a long interesting story about the Bronx-Whitestone bridge! : )

  • @xxSweetStrangerxx
    @xxSweetStrangerxx Před 3 lety +8

    It is a shame that despite of paying heavy taxes, we still have to pay for tolls just to cross from one part of city to another. Shame NYS.

    • @yell0wberry
      @yell0wberry Před 2 lety +4

      And it will keep going up until we have to buy shares off the bridge just in order to cross it

  • @nicholasmarkin2385
    @nicholasmarkin2385 Před 3 lety

    Happy 75th bday from West Orange nj my old bridge friend

  • @ny_zed
    @ny_zed Před 4 lety +1

    What up! 81 years old last month, seeing it from 28th Av and Union St

  • @VinceHere98
    @VinceHere98 Před 9 lety +1

    I'm subbin' to you, MTA!

  • @markallan3842
    @markallan3842 Před rokem +1

    Lovely bridge

  • @nicholasmarkin2385
    @nicholasmarkin2385 Před 3 lety +1

    I used to live in the bronx ride my pop's old vehicle in that bridge been there before

  • @helvihautala9267
    @helvihautala9267 Před 6 lety +2

    San Francisco has one suspension bridge. Queens has a pair. The whole Hudson River Valley is as scenic as it gets. Part of this was John D Rockefeller's work.

  • @davidfeliciano882
    @davidfeliciano882 Před 3 lety

    82 yrs old bronx whitestone bridge God bless Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and tunnel State of New York God bless my hometown

  • @randyrhoads9133
    @randyrhoads9133 Před 7 lety +4

    It's a nightmare crossing the bridge today!!!

  • @mattyian1208
    @mattyian1208 Před 4 lety +1

    What about the Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge?

  • @stuartlee6622
    @stuartlee6622 Před 6 lety

    Moses Hornstein?
    Horn Construction Co.??

  • @jessicat2304
    @jessicat2304 Před 6 lety +2

    I drove on this bridge heading to Boston and I was so afraid

    • @mocha1886
      @mocha1886 Před 6 lety

      Jessica T I have a fear of heights so I feel you. I live in Queens so I always cross this bridge when headed to NJ 😐

    • @SquidCena
      @SquidCena Před 5 lety

      Mocha18 You mean the george washington bridge??? Also im scared of heights and i can be in the passanger seat on the edge of the bridge and im not even scared... lol

    • @mocha1886
      @mocha1886 Před 5 lety +3

      Zaheed Chapman no lol, you have to first cross the Whitestone Bridge to get from Queens to the Bronx then the George Washington from Manhattan to NJ

  • @zicoo010
    @zicoo010 Před rokem

    this video for verazzano bridge

  • @shelleyharris165
    @shelleyharris165 Před 2 lety

    Chief chief

  • @jaydenfernandez3877
    @jaydenfernandez3877 Před 5 lety

    I’m at elmhurst

  • @yell0wberry
    @yell0wberry Před 2 lety +2

    Either this bridge or the Throgs neck bridge would have been perfect if there were a pedestrian walkway built with it, a blunder by the state

    • @spl1011
      @spl1011 Před rokem

      You didn't pay attention to the video, did you?

    • @yell0wberry
      @yell0wberry Před rokem

      What TH are you talking about?

  • @garnetkelly8898
    @garnetkelly8898 Před 4 lety +3

    See how fast they built it then 2 years now it takes 10 years with modern equipment .That's called milking the system.

    • @spl1011
      @spl1011 Před rokem +2

      Back then safety wasn't as much of a concern. Labor was much cheaper during the depression.

  • @bakariw210
    @bakariw210 Před rokem

    This bridge is dang old

  • @shelleyharris165
    @shelleyharris165 Před 2 lety

    Anchorage

  • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
    @JoseMorales-lw5nt Před 4 lety +6

    Give it up to Robert Moses, he loved permanent solutions to temporary, topical problems. How do I get middle class white folks from New England to my 1939 World's Fair? DING! Whitestone Bridge! How do I get Upstaters to my yet-to-be built 1964 World's Fair? DING! Throggs Neck Bridge! Only in NY 🇵🇷🇺🇸😎

  • @shelleyharris165
    @shelleyharris165 Před 2 lety

    Moses 1933.Dillon

  • @shelleyharris165
    @shelleyharris165 Před 2 lety

    Lincoln

  • @shelleyharris165
    @shelleyharris165 Před 2 lety

    Simple

  • @jeanlenor1858
    @jeanlenor1858 Před 2 měsíci

    Collected trillions in revenues