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The West Side Highway, East River Drive, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and two airports ( Floyd Bennett Field, and, later, LaGuardia Airport ) were built during his mayoralty.
* 1936The Triborough Bridge in New York, New York is opened to traffic.
* July 11 – Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority is responsible for other bridges and tunnels in the area.
The last four of Ammann's six New York City bridgesTriborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck, and Verrazano-Narrows — were all built for Moses ' Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.
* Triborough Bridge ( opened July 11, 1936 )
Some of the most famous PWA projects are the Triborough Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, the longest continuous sidewalk in the world along 6½ miles of Bayshore Blvd.
* Interstate 278 runs from U. S. Route 1 / 9 near Elizabeth, New Jersey over the Goethals Bridge, through Staten Island, over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and through Brooklyn and Queens, and across the Triborough Bridge into the Bronx to end at Interstate 95 at the Bruckner Interchange.
The two most prominent early authorities were the Port of New York Authority, formed in 1921 and renamed Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1972, and the Triborough Bridge Authority ( now the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ), formed in 1933.
Vehicular: Major Deegan Expressway ( I-87 ); Cross Bronx Expressway ( I-95 ); Bruckner Expressway ( I-278 ); Sheridan Expressway ( I-895 ); Triborough Bridge ; Grand Concourse.
By age 10 he was already singing, and performed at the opening of the Triborough Bridge, standing next to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia who patted him on the head.
The Throgs Neck Bridge is owned by the City of New York and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the MTA.
While its construction had long been recommended by local officials, the Triborough Bridge did not receive any funding until 1925, when the city appropriated funds for surveys, test borings and structural plans.
The American Society of Civil Engineers designated the Triborough Bridge Project as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1986.
On November 19, 2008, and pursuant to a request made by the Kennedy family, the Triborough Bridge was officially renamed after Robert F. Kennedy, who served New York as a senator, 40 years after his assassination.

Triborough and officially
Historically, the correct spelling is with two " g's ," and while NYC Parks Commissioner and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Chairman Robert Moses officially shortened it to one " g " after deciding that two would not fit on many of the street signs.

Triborough and Robert
* Triborough ( Robert F. Kennedy ) Bridge, connecting Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Randalls Island
It wasn ’ t until the first years of the 1960s, though, that then Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Chairman, Robert Moses, revealed plans for a parkway that would connect Brooklyn with New Jersey, traversing the island from the soon to be opened Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on the island ’ s north shore to the Outerbridge Crossing on the southern shore of Staten Island.
Robert Moses, the chairman of the Triborough Bridge Authority, attempted to scuttle the Brooklyn – Battery Tunnel proposal and have a bridge built in its place.
The art deco Triborough Bridge Authority Building, the former office and base of Robert Moses still stands on the island.

Triborough and .
Ammann was the man behind the George Washington, Bronx-Whitestone, Verrazano-Narrows, and Triborough Bridges.
Construction had begun on Black Friday in 1929, and the Triborough project's outlook began to look bleak.
Many traffic and news reports commonly use the name " RFK Triborough Bridge ", likely to avoid confusion among residents.
The toll revenues from the Triborough Bridge pay for a portion of the public transit subsidy for the New York City Transit Authority and the commuter railroads.

Triborough and 1936
In 1936 it was spanned by the Triborough Bridge, allowing vehicular traffic to pass between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens.
The creation of the park was followed by the development of the Triborough Bridge, starting in 1936 and lasting seven years, and the building of the Ward's Island Water Pollution Control Plant, which was built in 1937 and occupies nearly one quarter of the island.
Icahn Stadium sits on the site of the former Downing Stadium, opened in 1936 as part of a larger New York City Parks project which included the construction of the Triborough Bridge.

Triborough and ),
The MCTA changed its name to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ) in 1968 when it took over operations of the New York City Transit Authority ( NYCTA ) and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ( TBTA ), now MTA New York City Transit ( NYCT ) and MTA Bridges and Tunnels ( B & T ) respectively.
The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ( TBTA ) employs 966 Bridge and Tunnel Officers ( BTOs ), who are NYS Peace Officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms on duty.
It is the southernmost of Interstate 87 ( I-87 ), beginning at I-278 at the interchange of the Bruckner Expressway and the Triborough Bridge in the south Bronx and ending at the Westchester County line in Yonkers, where the New York State Thruway begins.

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It serves as a partial beltway through the eastern section of New York City and passes through all five of the city's boroughs ( through Manhattan only because the Triborough Bridge crosses Wards Island, which is part of Manhattan ).
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, legal name Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, is a division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, that operates seven intrastate toll bridges and two tunnels in New York City.
The name Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority is still the legal name of the Authority and was used publicly between 1946 and 1994.
The bridge is owned by New York City and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The bridge is owned by the City of New York and operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Most drivers use the Triborough Bridge when traffic is not congested, and reach the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway via Astoria Boulevard.
Bicyclists are now forced to detour to the Triborough Bridge or possibly try hitchhiking across, which is illegal and considered very dangerous.
The Triborough is really four separate bridges ; the spans from the Bronx to Randall's Island and from Randall's Island to Manhattan are vertical-lift bridges.
Mott Haven is served by the Triborough Bridge, the Third Avenue Bridge, the Madison Avenue Bridge and the Willis Avenue Bridge.
The Triborough Bridge complex, whose hub is located on the island, provides vehicular and pedestrian access from the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
The Grand Central Parkway ( GCP ) is a parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island.

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