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The Trans-Manhattan Expressway is an east–west high-rise Bridge Apartments built over the expressway create Intermittent tunnels. It is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.[3]
At its western end the Trans-Manhattan Expressway is part of I-95, Fort Washington Park, connecting with the Henry Hudson Parkway (New York State Route 9A or NY 9A) at the park's eastern edge near Riverside Drive and 168th Street.[4] The route continues on, crossing the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights in a cut flanked by 178th Street to the south and 179th Street to the north. Roughly midway across Manhattan, US 9 leaves the freeway to follow Broadway northward toward the Bronx and Westchester County. Proceeding eastward, the road has several ramps that connect to the Harlem River Drive and the expressway's original Harlem river crossing, the Washington Bridge (now carrying 181st Street local traffic over the Harlem River). At Highbridge Park the roadway crosses Alexander Hamilton Bridge to the Bronx, where it becomes the Cross Bronx Expressway.
The TME replaced tunnels under 178th and 179th Streets as the crosstown route. They are now used as storage by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ).[5]
Announced in 1957, the expressway was built in conjunction with addition of the lower level of the bridge.[6] Originally known as the George Washington Bridge Expressway,[7] the highway was originally planned as an open cut between 178th and 179th Streets, traversed by overpasses carrying the major north–south avenues in upper Manhattan. The City of New York approved the creation of the highway in June 1957 as part of a joint effort with the PANYNJ that also called for the creation of the lower deck on the George Washington Bridge and construction of the
The entire route is in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
[13] Local traffic reporters frequently refer to congestion "under the Apartments" during morning and evening rush hours.[12] bult four high-rise apartment buildings over the expressway. The 32-story buildings are among the first aluminum-sheathed high-rise structures built in the world.Marvin Kratter After purchasing the air rights in 1961 [3] The expressway was one of the first to use
. East Side on the Harlem River Drive and the Amsterdam Avenue of Manhattan, and to and from West Side on the Riverside Drive and Henry Hudson Parkway The Trans-Manhattan Expressway provides access to and from the [11] The Trans-Manhattan Expressway, with three lanes of traffic heading in each direction to and from each deck of the
[10] were place in December 1959.St. Nicholas Avenue and Wadsworth Avenue and Broadway passing under open cut Overpasses over the [9] The projects required demolish of numerous buildings and the relocation of 1,824 families.[1]
Brooklyn, The Bronx, New York City, Queens, Staten Island
The Bronx, Times Square, Columbus Circle, Broadway theatre, Fifth Avenue
New Jersey, New York, Manhattan, Staten Island, World Trade Center
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Paterson, New Jersey, Bergen County, New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey
New York City, Democratic Party (United States), Manhattan, Queens, Westchester County, New York
New York City, Upper Manhattan, Interstate 95, Manhattan, Broadway (Manhattan)
Trans-Manhattan Expressway, Lower Manhattan Expressway, Mid-Manhattan Expressway, Cross Harlem Expressway