Bayonne Bridge
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The Bayonne Bridge is a steel through arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jers
View from Bayonne towards Staten Island, May 2019
The original deck of the Bayonne Bridge
The bridge with its original deck, seen from the North Shore Branch embankment at Nicholas Avenue
The bridge seen with its original deck at sunset
Othmar Ammann
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Othmar Hermann Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. He also directed the planning and co
Bayonne Bridge
…cross the Arthur Kill. The original four-lane roadway was designed for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by Swiss master bridge-builder Othmar Ammann and architect Cass Gilbert. Completed in 1931, it included a walkway, and offered 151 feet (46 m) of vertical clearance above the water. A Port Authority…
Ammann in 1932
Bust in George Washington Bridge bus station