Market Street Bridge (Passaic River)

Market/2nd Street Bridge
Coordinates	40°51′36″N74°06′58″W / 40.860°N 74.116°W / 40.860; -74.116 (Second Street Bridge)
Carries	Market Street (2nd Street) Wallington Avenue
Crosses	Passaic River
Locale	Passaic & Wallington New Jersey
Other name(s)	2nd Street Bridge
Owner	Passaic County
Maintained by	Passaic and Bergen
ID number	1600003
Preceded by	1894
Characteristics
Design	double basule (fixed 1977)
Material	Steel
Total length	307 feet (94 m)
Width	30 feet (9.1 m)
No. of spans	3
History
Designer	Strauss Bascule Bridge Company
Constructed by	F. W. Schwieres, Jr.
Construction end	1930 1977 2002
Location
References
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Market Street Bridge, also known as the Second Street Bridge, is a vehicular bridge over the Passaic River crossing the Passaic-Bergen county line in Passaic and Wallington in northeastern New Jersey. The double-leaf bascule bridge was built in 1930 and fixed in the closed position in 1977. It was reconstructed in 2002. It carries a two-lane street and sidewalks in a late-19th and early-20th century industrial area along the river. ^[5] An earlier structure built at the crossing in 1894 was damaged during the Passaic floods of 1902 and 1903 but survived. ^{[6] [7]}

It is one of three bridges crossing the river between the two municipalities, the others being the Gregory Avenue Bridge and the Eighth Street Bridge. Two other crossings of the Passaic have been known as Market Street Bridge, the since-removed Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Newark Penn Station and the extant vehicular bridge at Paterson.

See also

• Market Street Bridge (disambiguation)
• List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River
• List of crossings of the Hackensack River
• List of NJT moveable bridges
• List of fixed crossings of the North River (Hudson River)
• Transportportal
• Engineeringportal
• New Jerseyportal

References

1. "Market Street Bridge over Passaic River" (PDF). Historic Bridge Survey (1991–1994). New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2001. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
2. "Interim Bridge Report" (PDF). NJDOT. August 9, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
3. Federal Highway Administration (n.d.). "New Jersey". National Bridge Inventory. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved December 10, 2016– via Uglybridges.
4. "Passaic River Bridge (Market Street over Passaic River)". Bridgehunter. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
5. "Historic Bridge Survey (1991-1994)". New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2001. Retrieved August 21, 2012. The main span of the 3-span bridge is a Strauss underneath counterweight double-leaf girder bascule. The approaches are encased deck girders with concrete balustrades while the movable leafs have metal railings. A fairly late example of what by 1930was a common type, the span was altered c. 1977 when the motors and controls were removed and the bridge was fixed. The gearing and octagonal houses remain, but the span has been significantly altered which diminishes its technological significance.
6. "History". Borough of Wallington. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
7. "Fifty City Blocks At Passaic Under Water.; Wallington City Hall Out of Plumb and the Lyndhurst Bridge Is Gone" (PDF). The New York Times. 1902. Retrieved December 20, 2016.