145th Street Bridge

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145th Street Bridge
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View from the Bronx
Coordinates 40°49′10″N73°55′59″W / 40.819461°N 73.933053°W / 40.819461; -73.933053
Carries4 lanes of roadway
Crosses Harlem River
Locale Manhattan and the Bronx,
New York City
Owner City of New York
Maintained by NYCDOT [1]
Preceded by Macombs Dam Bridge
Followed by Madison Avenue Bridge
Characteristics
Design Swing bridge [1]
Total length1,602 feet (488.29 m) [1]
Longest span300 feet (91.44 m) [1]
History
Construction cost$85 million [1]
OpenedAugust 4, 1905 (1905-08-04) [1]
RebuiltFebruary 2007 (2007-02) [1]
Statistics
Daily traffic 29,315 (2016) [2]
Location
145th Street Bridge
The 145th St Bridge above the Oak Point Link railway in 2025. 145th Bridge 2025.jpg
The 145th St Bridge above the Oak Point Link railway in 2025.

The 145th Street Bridge is a four-lane swing bridge across the Harlem River in New York City, connecting West 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan with East 149th Street and River Avenue in the Bronx. The bridge is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation.

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The 145th Street Bridge carries the Bx19 bus route operated by MTA New York City Transit. [3] [4] Between 2000 and 2014, the bridge opened for vessels 23 times. [5]

History

At the end of the 19th century, rapid growth in the South Bronx area necessitated another Harlem River crossing. Construction on the original 145th St Bridge began on April 19, 1901. The designer was Alfred Pancoast Boller, who based the design on the Macombs Dam Bridge but modified it so that growth in water travel could be accommodated. Completion was delayed due to the construction of the 145th Street station (IRT Lenox Avenue Line) beneath one pier; the $2.75 million bridge was opened to traffic on August 24, 1905. [6] It once carried northbound New York State Route 22 and New York State Route 100. This bridge was also once named the "Lenox Avenue Bridge", though that name has fallen into disuse.

In 1957, the bridge was improved by building approach spans over Harlem River Drive, and again in 1990 with the construction of three more spans to provide the Oak Point Link railway a right-of-way. [7]

A new swing span for the bridge was assembled in the Port of Coeymans in Coeymans, New York, in southern Albany County. The new span arrived in New York in 2006, [8] and the span was replaced in February 2007. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Michael R. Bloomberg, City of New York (January 23, 2004). "New York City's Harlem River Bridges: The Reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century" (PDF). Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ "New York City Bridge Traffic Volumes" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. 2016. p. 9. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Bronx Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. October 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Bridges and Tunnels Annual Condition Report" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. 2014. p. 147. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Harlem River Bridges - 145th St Bridge". Infrastructure. NYC DOT. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
  7. ↑ Reconstruction of the 145th Street Bridge over the Harlem River (PDF) (Report). NYC DOT. 2006. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
  8. ↑ "New 145th Street Bridge Arrives in the City Via Barge". The New York Sun. November 1, 2006. Archived from the original on March 25, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2020.


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