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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 🇵🇷🇺🇸😎
Most beautiful bridge to drive over. Drove over with my parent's and family many times over❤
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.
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.
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.
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
@@tommypetraglia4688 was that the same as Flushing Hospital?
@@tommypetraglia4688 now closed
@@mikegruber172 no its open
A beautiful bridge .. never really gets a lot of recognition. Growing up on LI, I've crossed it many times.
David Kahn i cross it today going to queens and or brookyln...
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:
kleptoparasites => CUCKOOS
It’s definitely a fun cross on the Q 44
and now, 80 years old.
82 now
What a long interesting story about the Bronx-Whitestone bridge! : )
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.
And it will keep going up until we have to buy shares off the bridge just in order to cross it
Happy birthday Whitestone Bridge! Enjoy the facelift. You'd make Joan Rivers proud.
Happy 75th bday from West Orange nj my old bridge friend
I'm subbin' to you, MTA!
What up! 81 years old last month, seeing it from 28th Av and Union St
Lovely bridge
82 yrs old bronx whitestone bridge God bless Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and tunnel State of New York God bless my hometown
I used to live in the bronx ride my pop's old vehicle in that bridge been there before
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.
It's a nightmare crossing the bridge today!!!
It’s not a nightmare!!
What about the Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge?
Moses Hornstein?
Horn Construction Co.??
I drove on this bridge heading to Boston and I was so afraid
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 😐
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
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
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
You didn't pay attention to the video, did you?
What TH are you talking about?
Chief chief
this video for verazzano bridge
I’m at elmhurst
This bridge is dang old
See how fast they built it then 2 years now it takes 10 years with modern equipment .That's called milking the system.
Back then safety wasn't as much of a concern. Labor was much cheaper during the depression.
Anchorage
Moses 1933.Dillon
Lincoln
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 🇵🇷🇺🇸😎
Simple
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