Other facilities managed by the Port Authority include the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Holland Tunnel, which all connect Manhattan and Northern New Jersey ; the Goethals Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing which connect Staten Island and New Jersey.

Othmar Hermann Ammann ( March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965 ) was a Swiss-American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.

Ammann's designs for the George Washington Bridge, and, later, the Bayonne Bridge, caught the attention of master builder Robert Moses, who drafted Ammann into his service.

* Bayonne Bridge ( opened November 15, 1931 )

The Bayonne Bridge is the only bridge of Othmar's design that is not a suspension bridge ; rather it is an arch bridge.

* Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is part of a walkway that is intended to run the more than 18 miles from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge.

Films set in Bayonne include the 1991 film Mortal Thoughts, with Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, which was filmed near Horace Mann School and locations around Bayonne and Hoboken ; the 2000 drama Men of Honor, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr .; the 2002 drama Hysterical Blindness ; and the 2005 Tom Cruise science fiction film War of the Worlds, which opens at the Bayonne home of the lead character, and depicts the destruction of the Bayonne Bridge by aliens.

The promenade along the river bank is part of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to George Washington Bridge and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge and to create an urban linear park offering expansive views of the Hudson with the spectacular backdrop of the New York skyline.

The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge creating an-long urban linear park and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge.

* Othmar Ammann ( 1879-1965 ), structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Bayonne Bridge.

In 1988, construction of a waterfront walkway was mandated by state law that would allow walkers a path along the Hudson River from Bayonne up to the George Washington Bridge.

It is said he ruled " from Belorado to Pallars and from Bayonne to Monreal.

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition from 1560 brought new trades, most notably chocolate-making, which is still important in Bayonne.

Bayonne is now part of ' BAB ' ( Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ), a metropolitan area of almost 200, 000 people.

Grand Bayonne is the commercial and civic hub, with small pedestrianised streets packed with shops, plus the cathedral and Hôtel de Ville.

At the back of Petit Bayonne is the Château Neuf, among the ramparts.

Bayonne has the longest tradition of bull-fighting in France and there is a ring beyond the walls of Grand Bayonne.

Bull-fighting is part of the five-day Fêtes de Bayonne which starts on the first Wednesday of August and attracts people from across the Basque Country and beyond.

Bayonne is known for its fine chocolates, produced in the town for 500 years, and Bayonne ham, a cured ham seasoned with peppers from nearby Espelette.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

Bayonne is now the centre of certain craft industries that were once widespread, including the manufacture of makilas, traditional Basque walking-sticks.

The Gare de Bayonne is on the high-speed TGV line between Paris and Hendaye for connections with Spain.

The city is near the intersection between the A63 autoroute between Bordeaux and the Spanish border and the A64 from Bayonne to Toulouse.

The city bus system is STAB ( Transports Urbains de l ' agglomération de Bayonne ).

Bayonne harbour is a stop over for yachts and boats crossing the Gulf of Biscay on their way from the UK to the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

The seventh track of Joe Bonamassa's album Dust Bowl is entitled The Last Matador of Bayonne.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

Bayonne Ham or Bayonne is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France ( Le Pays Basque or Basque country ).

Du Pont was born at Goodstay, his family home in Bergen Point ( now Bayonne ), New Jersey, the fourth child and second son of Victor Marie du Pont and Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport.

It is the fourth school in Bayonne to receive this honor.

It was the world's longest steel arch bridge until the Bayonne Bridge was opened in 1931, and was surpassed again by the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932.

He founded the Stirling Boiler Company which was merged with the Babcock and Wilcox Boiler Manufacturing Company of Barberton and Bayonne, New Jersey, the concern thus becoming the largest manufacturer of steel boilers in the world.

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

In 2008 Senator Charles Schumer and other Staten Island representatives proposed a Park and Ride under the bridge, for users of bus service to Bayonne, New Jersey.

This bridge offered a route and service through Bayonne and access to the Communipaw Terminal with ferry service to New York City.

After the Conrail takeover the bridge between Bayonne and Elizabethport was demolished in the 1980s, but some of the stone piers were left standing along the shores of Newark Bay.

Anthony " Tino " De Angelis ( born 1915 ) is a Bayonne, New Jersey based commodities trader who bought and sold vegetable oil futures around the world.

By the end of testing, drivers had road tested prototypes in real world conditions including dry weather and dusty condition testing in Madrid, engine testing in Bayonne, cold testing at the Arctic Circle in Norway, suspension testing in Sicily, weatherseal testing in then-Yugoslavia — with more than two-million kilometers of road and track testing.