This article is about the bridge carrying Interstate 278 over the Newtown Creek in New York City. For the twin bridges carrying Interstate 87 over the Mohawk River in upstate New York, see Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge.
April 27, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-04-27) (eastbound) August 29, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-08-29) (westbound)
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The Kosciuszko Bridge/ˌkɒziˈʊskoʊ,ˌkɒʒiˈʊʃkoʊ/,[1] originally known as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over Newtown Creek in New York City, connecting Greenpoint in Brooklyn to Maspeth in Queens. The bridge consists of a pair of cable-stayed bridge spans: the eastbound span opened in April 2017, while the westbound span opened in August 2019. An older bridge, a truss bridge of the same name that was located on the site of the westbound cable-stayed span, was originally opened in 1939 and was closed and demolished in 2017. The crossing is part of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE), which carries Interstate 278.
The older truss bridge replaced the historical swing bridge which connected Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn to Laurel Hill Boulevard in Queens. The 1939 Kosciuszko Bridge carried six lanes of traffic, three in each direction. In 1940, a year after opening, the bridge was renamed after Polish military leader and Grand Duchy of Lithuania Tadeusz Kościuszko, who fought alongside the Americans in the American Revolutionary War.
In 2014, a contract was awarded and work begun to build one of two replacement bridges with more capacity, with the first bridge initially carrying bidirectional traffic. The replacement bridges have the same name as the original bridge, and are both cable-stayed bridges that will each carry one direction of traffic. The first bridge, located south of the old truss bridge, opened on April 27, 2017, with three lanes in each direction. Once the old bridge was demolished via controlled explosion in October 2017, a new westbound cable-stayed bridge with four lanes and a bike/pedestrian path started construction on the site of the old bridge. The first cable-stayed bridge became eastbound-only with five lanes when the westbound bridge opened on August 29, 2019.
^This describes two possible pronunciations, but there are many other pronunciations in practice. See:
Kosciuszko Bridge Project Open House, Introduction on YouTube
Dunlap, David W. (April 28, 2017). "How Do You Pronounce Kosciuszko? It Depends on Where You're From". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
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Nelson Rockefeller on May 26, 1961. The bridge is named (using an anglicized form) in honor of Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), the preeminent national figure...
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