Do you see what I see? The Henry Hudson and Spuyten Duyvil Bridges. On Wednesday I wrote about taking photographs from a moving Metro-North Hudson Line train; here are a couple of shots from that trip.
I am really fascinated by various architectural structures and if you travel along the Hudson River you can't help admiring the bridge structures you pass along the way.
The Henry Hudson Bridge is so named after the explorer by the same name who ventured up the Hudson river in 1609. This Bridge was constructed in 1935 and came into operation in 1936 to connect the Bronx/ Westchester area to Manhattan. The bridge is 2,209 feet long but the main span is about 840 feet. When the bridge was first in use, about 17,000 vehicles crossed over it daily. Today this number has increased to more than 77,000. The bridge has toll booths but the MTA is presently experimenting with an all electronic system to help alleviate the traffic congestion when crossing over the Henry Hudson.
The smaller bridge is called the Spuyten Duyvil which as the story goes is a Dutch phrase for spite the devil. This bridge runs from the Hudson River to the Harlem River
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