Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bridge across the Hudson
— — a long white line drawn across the widest river.
Not only on a wall.
“The bridge crosses the Hudson at one of the river's widest points, three miles between Westchester and Rockland Counties. The current twin-span cable-stayed bridge opened in 2017 and 2018, replacing the 1955 cantilever crossing it took the name from. It carries the New York State Thruway, Interstate 87 and 287, over the Tappan Zee, a Dutch-named reach where the river broadens to almost three miles across. Eight cable-stay towers rise 419 feet above the water. From the studio.
Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bridge across the Hudson, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge carries the New York State Thruway, Interstates 87 and 287, across the Hudson River between Tarrytown in Westchester County and South Nyack in Rockland County. The crossing is roughly 3.1 miles long, spanning a wide reach of the Hudson the Dutch called the Tappan Zee, after the Tappan people and the Dutch word for sea. The bridge is a twin cable-stayed span with eight 419-foot towers, opened in two stages in 2017 and 2018, replacing the 1955 cantilever bridge of the same earlier name.
The Tappan Zee is the widest natural reach of the Hudson south of the Catskills, almost three miles bank to bank. The river here is brackish and tidal; the salt front migrates seasonally and the current reverses with the Atlantic tide twice a day. The bridge site was chosen in the early 1950s in part because it lay just outside the jurisdiction of the Port Authority, which would have shared toll revenue. The hydrology made it the hardest crossing on the river to engineer.
The original Tappan Zee Bridge opened in December 1955 as part of the New York State Thruway and was named for the reach it crossed. By the 2000s it was past its design life and structurally inadequate for the volume it carried. Construction on the replacement began in 2013 under the Tappan Zee Constructors consortium. The first span carried westbound traffic from August 2017; the second opened in September 2018. It was renamed for the late Governor Mario Cuomo, father of the sitting governor at the time, by act of the state legislature.