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s0007972 |
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03/02/03 |
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28/02/07 |
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| Description | Value |
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| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| bascule span |
steel
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| deck girder spans |
steel
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| half-through girder spans |
steel
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bascule span length |
12.2 m | | |
roadway / carriageway width |
20.2 m | | |
sidewalk width |
2.4 m |
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cost of construction |
US$ 9 664 446.25 |
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| 10 September 1954
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| Opening ceremony. |
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The bridge has paired double-leaf bascule spans, deck girders, and half-through girders.
Spans Newtown Creek between McGuinness Boulevard, Greenpoint, Kings County, NY, and 11th Street, Long Island City, Queens County, NY. Also spans New York & Atlantic Railroad and Queens-Midtown Tunnel toll plaza.
Named for Casimir Pulaski, Polish commander who aided in American war of independence from Britain. The bascule leaves have parallel-counterweight design, and are protected by yielding cable-type traffic barriers, both similar to designs of Joseph B. Strauss, the patents for which had expired by the time of construction. Also painted a similar color to that of the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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| The following external links open in a new window. Structurae is not responsible for their content nor endorses it. |
 | Wikipedia: Pulaski Bridge  |
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Bridge Linking Greenpoint Section of Brooklyn and Long Island City is Opened, New York Times, 11.09.1954.
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New Pulaski Span Will Open Friday, New York Times, 07.09.1954.
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Poteete, Robert A. Brooklyn-Queens Span Will Be Opened Sept. 10, New York Herald Tribune, 02.09.1954.
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Spivey, Justin M. Pulaski Bridge over Newtown Creek, presented at Society of Industrial Archeology 31st Annual Conference.
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YASSIN, Ivor B. Le pont basculant Pulaski, reliant, sur le Newtown Creek, à New York, les quartiers de Queens et de Brooklyn, in
"La Technique des Travaux", January 1956, n. 1-2 v. 32 .
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