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      • The Livingston Avenue Bridge is a railroad bridge over the Hudson River in New York connecting Albany and Rensselaer. The original structure was built in 1866 by the Hudson River Bridge Company but was replaced in 1901–02.
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  2. Feb 28, 2011 · The Livingston Avenue Bridge, the graceful and anachronistic swing bridge that carries trains across the Hudson River at Albany and still swings open to let larger ships reach Troy, has been part of the landscape longer than anyone now alive. It is often cited as dating to the Civil War.

  3. The current bridge was constructed in 1901-2 and was named the Livingston Avenue Bridge. [3] The 1902 bridge was built upon the original 1866 pilings. [4] At the time the original Hudson River Bridge was constructed, Livingston Avenue had been named Lumber Street, as it led to the Albany Lumber District .

  4. Sep 24, 2015 · But the original bridge (not the one there today) in the spot preceded the street being named Livingston Ave. And when it opened in 1866, it didn't have a name-- it eventually became known as The Upper Bridge, and then the Livingston Avenue Bridge. (That link is to a post on Hoxsie about the bridge's long, contested, and somewhat unclear history.)

  5. Aug 24, 2015 · August 24, 2015November 11, 2022 Carl Johnson. 1895 map showing the location of the Livingston Avenue Bridge. The New York State Engineer and Surveyor’s report from 1864 contains an extensive history of The Hudson River Bridge Company, the operation that built Albany’s iconic Livingston Avenue Bridge. The report contains a huge amount of ...

  6. The Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [2] 1903, [3] 1931, [4] and 1964 [5] respectively. There are 789 bridges and tunnels in New York.

    Name
    Opening Year
    Length(feet)
    Length(meters)
    1883
    5,988
    1,825
    1909
    6,854
    2,089
    1903
    7,308.0
    2,227.48
    1909
    3,724
    1,135
  7. The history of Albany, New York, began long before the first interaction of Europeans with the native Indian tribes, as they had long inhabited the area.The area was originally inhabited by an Algonquian Indian tribe, the Mohicans, as well as the Iroquois, five nations of whom the easternmost, the Mohawk, had the closest relations with traders and settlers in Albany.

  8. Feb 17, 2011 · Problem solved. Correction: February 19, 2011. An article on Friday comparing resistance to the proposed renaming of the Queensboro Bridge with resistance to naming of the George Washington Bridge in 1931 misstated the proposed name for the Queensboro. It would be called the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, not the Edward I. Koch Bridge.

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