Queensboro Bridge

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The Queensboro Bridge, or also called 59th Street Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. It connects Manhattan at the height of 59th Street to the Queens Boulevard in Long Iceland City in Queens and Roosevelt crosses Iceland.

Construction began on 19 July 1901 and on 30 March 1909, the bridge was opened to traffic. It was designed by Gustav Lindenthal, the first Commissioner of the Department of Bridges, and Henry Hornbostel. The cost of the bridge amounted to 20 million U.S. dollars (in today's value of approximately 588 million U.S. dollars). 50 people died in the building, which was debate about the design and a scandal about too much steel invoiced overshadowed by labor disputes, lost their lives.

The Queensboro Bridge is inclusive of access ramps 2470.5 m long and 106.7 m high. The maximum height of the track is 39.6 m above the mean high water.

Originally, the Queensboro Bridge was on the upper bridge deck, two elevated railway tracks and two carriageways for vehicles and pedestrians. The lower deck had two tram lines and four lanes for vehicles. 1942 first elevated railway tracks, and in 1958 finally removed the tram tracks. Today the bridge has nine lanes, four on the top and five on the lower deck, as well as a track for pedestrians and cyclists on the north side of the lower deck.

The Queensboro Bridge was the first road link between Manhattan and Queens and initiated the rapid development of the hitherto largely rural district of Queens.

The bridge was added in 2009 by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.