The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It replaced the Charlestown High Bridge, an older truss b
Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, alongside the Leverett Circle Connector Bridge, 2017
Under Zakim Bridge, Five Beacons for the Lost Half Mile, blue phase
Five Beacons for the Lost Half Mile, orange phase, view to West
Dedication plaque for the bridge
Leonard P. Zakim
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Leonard Paul Zakim was a Jewish American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer. Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge
…Orange Line's Haymarket North Extension tunnel lies beneath the bridge. The bridge's full name commemorates Boston area leader and civil rights activist Leonard P. Zakim, who championed "building bridges between peoples", and the Battle of Bunker Hill. The bridge was dedicated on October 4, 2002, in a ceremony held on…
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River was named to honor Zakim's civil rights and race relations work in Boston.