54 THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 



One Hundred Forty-fifth Street and Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, 

 with East One Hundred Forty-ninth Street, The Bronx. It was 

 opened to the public on August 24th, 1905. Then follow the Ma- 

 comb's Dam; New York and Putnam; Washington; University 

 Heights ; Ship Canal ; Broadway and King's Bridges. 



Connecting the Borough of The Bronx with the Borough of 

 Queens is to be the new steel Bronx-Astoria Bridge, now in the 

 process of construction. This bridge, which will be the largest 

 of its kind in the world, will consist of a series of spans from Port 

 Morris over Randall's and Ward's Islands, to the shore of the 

 Borough of Queens, and will provide for direct railroad communi- 

 cation between the two boroughs. It was designed by former 

 Bridge Commissioners Gustav Lindenthal, Palmer and Horn- 

 bostel. 



The viaduct in The Bronx will be twelve blocks long, from 

 One Hundred Forty-second Street and Walnut Avenue, where it 

 will be twenty feet above ground, thru the Port Morris yard 

 of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, to the water 

 front; here its height will be sixty-five feet. 



The first span, a 300-foot bridge of the lift type, will cross 

 Bronx Kills. There will be a steel pier in the center, sc constructed 

 as to permit, in the event of the Kills being deepened, as was pro- 

 posed by the War Department, the passage of vessels from the 

 Hudson River to the Sound by way of the Harlem Ship Canal. 



Next will come a 2,600-foot viaduct across Randall's Island, 

 connecting with the second bridge, a 1,000 foot riveted truss bridge 

 composed of five spans across Little Hell Gate. This joins the 

 viaduct across Ward's Island, which will rest on concrete piers and 

 will be 2,600 feet long. This viaduct will join the main bridge 

 structure across Hell Gate, connecting with the Astoria shore be- 

 tween Ditmars and Potter Avenues, just south of the old Barclay 

 Mansion. 



The railroad crossing this bridge will have a line for freight 

 and another for passengers. The passenger line will connect the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad and the New Haven by means of the Penn- 

 sylvania tunnel under the Hudson River and the tunnel under the 

 City at Thirty-fourth Street, thus making a route thru The 

 Bronx from the southwest to New England and Canada. The 

 freight line will come by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad along 

 the north shore of Staten Island to St. George, thence by tunnel 



