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Why was the GW Bridge built so far north in MFH?
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Date: May 15th, 2021 6:36 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed Seems like it'd been a lot more useful at 96th street or below, especially at the time it was built. Was it all about leading a passage from NJ to New England?
Maybe the better question is why didn't Washington Heights prosper more from this corridor? |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 7:22 PM Author: Odious Theater Stage "Maybe the better question is why didn't Washington Heights prosper more from this corridor?"
lolwut? why would an urban neighborhood "prosper" from having a smog-filled highway rammed through it? |
Date: May 15th, 2021 6:41 PM Author: beta nubile sandwich Well Central Park goes to 125th. Geography may also be tricky on Jersey side (it’s cliffs). Apparently 57th street was first choice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge |
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Date: May 15th, 2021 7:03 PM Author: Ebony Soul-stirring Boiling Water Place Of Business Central Park goes from 59th to 110th (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42468183) |
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Date: May 15th, 2021 6:48 PM Author: heady fanboi In May 1924, Colonel Frederick Stuart Greene, the New York Superintendent of Public Works, announced a plan to construct a suspension bridge between Fort Lee and Fort Washington. At that location, both sides were surrounded by steep cliffs (The Palisades on the New Jersey side, and Washington Heights on the New York side). Thus, it was possible to build the bridge without either impeding maritime traffic or requiring lengthy approach ramps from ground level.[75] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42468127) |
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Date: May 15th, 2021 7:02 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed Makes sense. Thanks for scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42468176) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 7:21 PM Author: vivacious preventive strike brunch ding ding ding (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42473135) |
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Date: May 15th, 2021 7:02 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation Drive from LGA down Grand Central to the triboro to Major Deegan to the Transmanhattan Expressway across the GWB to Fort Lee in rush hour is some pretty epic traffic. I’ve only done it once in my life, but it took about 3.5 hours just to get out of NYC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42468177) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 12:42 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed I don't think that's the way to/from NE, though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471119) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 1:40 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation that's the "I'm on Long Island, a blizzard is coming, and fuck if I'm going to be trapped" get the fuck off of the Island and back to the mainland panic shuffle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471378) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:04 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed If you need to get to mainland or die, wouldn't Whitestone Br to upstate be credited? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471475) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:08 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation my bed that night was in central pennsylvania. took 78 into pa to Hamburg, down 61 to Reading, then picked up 222 right into the heart of Amish Country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471487) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 7:22 PM Author: vivacious preventive strike brunch (guy who isn't aware of the Tappanzee) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42473139) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:09 PM Author: Turquoise exciting dog poop titcr, or Throgs Neck
lmao at crossing MFH on 42nd st, the worst possible route |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:11 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation I crossed MFH way the fuck up there from 87. Across the Harlem River and then through the transverse tunnel thing with the apartment buildings towering over you and onto the GWB. Also, I had to go to Pennsylvania. Connecticut wasn't going to help me that night. |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 12:45 PM Author: Hyperactive Mad-dog Skullcap Private Investor Usually a bridge destroys neighborhoods. No one wants to live near or under a bridge. The area of the Bronx where the bridge extends to (cross Bronx expressway/95) used to be prosperous before the bridge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471129) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 12:46 PM Author: ungodly bawdyhouse benzo does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471135) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 1:24 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed In the 20s and 30s, there still weren't that many neighborhoods on the far west side, and the existing ones were mostly slums or light industry
NY literally bulldozed entire communities like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Hill%2C_Manhattan?wprov=sfla1 to get shit built, so I don't think this was a sticking point
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:09 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation to be entirely fair, the facade of the building in that photograph is in terrible shape. No wonder they bulldozed it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471490) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:12 PM Author: Blathering Digit Ratio Corner I think that neighborhood is where West Side Story would have been occurring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471506) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 2:14 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation Fuck no. WSS is like down on the east side, above 96th, maybe 100th street over there somewhere. It's basically the same neighborhood as the one from which all of the Central Park 5 came. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42471510) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 4:15 PM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed Huge fatal flaw in WEST Side Story, if true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42472198) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 5:26 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation West Side has always been bourgie as hell below 112th. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42472599) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 5:57 PM Author: beta nubile sandwich Hells Kitchen bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42472738) |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 6:02 PM Author: indigo french skinny woman mediation Oh shit. That’s not even UWS though. Fuck me running (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42472765) |
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Date: May 19th, 2021 1:26 AM Author: Blathering Digit Ratio Corner Hilarious when people like you and the others who replied are so wrong and yet so bizarrely confident
"Lincoln Square: Original Setting. New York
West Side Story was originally set in the neighborhood of Lincoln Square, or San Juan Hill, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan." |
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Date: May 16th, 2021 6:08 PM Author: bright zippy hell associate 95 connects the whole east coast. maybe they werent so concerned about boosting cronut sales in the 30s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42472798) |
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Date: May 19th, 2021 9:17 AM Author: mind-boggling sound barrier half-breed The Interstate Highway System didn't exist at the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42487199) |
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Date: May 19th, 2021 2:23 PM Author: Blathering Digit Ratio Corner Were there prior roads and throughways? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4835460&forum_id=2#42489319) |