Manhattan Bridge

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road–rail bridge suspension bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City that connects Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn and carries both vehicular traffic and subway lines.

Aliases (3)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	road–rail bridge → suspension bridge →
carries	bicycle traffic → pedestrian traffic → subway lines → vehicular traffic →
carriesRoute	Canal Street → Flatbush Avenue Extension → New York State Route 27 →
carriesSubwayLine	B (IND Sixth Avenue Line) → D (IND Sixth Avenue Line) → N (BMT Broadway Line) → Q (BMT Broadway Line) →
connects	Brooklyn → Manhattan →
connectsArea	Downtown Brooklyn → Lower Manhattan →
constructionStartDate	1901 →
country	United States →
crosses	East River →
designer	Leon Moisseiff →
engineer	Leon Moisseiff →
hasFeature	bikeway → lower deck subway tracks → pedestrian walkway → steel towers → suspension cables → upper roadway deck →
hasToll	no →
heritageStatus	New York City Landmark (structure elements nearby, approaches not individually designated) →
isOneOf	East River bridges →
locatedIn	New York City → New York State → United States →
mainSpanLength	448 m →
maintainedBy	New York City Department of Transportation →
namedAfter	Manhattan →
neighboringBridge	Brooklyn Bridge → Williamsburg Bridge →
numberOfRoadwayLanes	7 →
numberOfSpans	3 →
numberOfSubwayTracks	4 →
officialOpeningDate	1910-12-31 →
opened	1909-12-31 →
openedBy	City of New York →
openedToTraffic	1909 →
partOf	New York City bridge system →
totalLength	2089 m →
trafficDirection	bidirectional →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Q train → R train ("Manhattan Bridge (historically, in some service patterns)") →	usesBridge
Brooklyn →	bridgeConnection
Long Island →	connectedBy
East River →	crossedBy
Williamsburg Bridge →	followedBy
Manhattan →	hasBridgeConnection
DUMBO ("Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade (Brooklyn side vicinity)") →	hasLandmark
DUMBO →	near
Brooklyn Navy Yard →	nearInfrastructure
Carrère and Hastings ("Manhattan Bridge approaches and plazas, New York City") →	notableWork
N train →	usesInfrastructure