Mid-Hudson Bridge
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Vermontish
N 41° 42.260 W 073° 57.101
18T E 587220 N 4617480
Beautiful suspension bridge
Waymark Code: WM7RBE
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2009
Views: 3
A toll bridge carrying Routes US 44 and NY 55 across the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland, NY. It was the first fixed crossing of the river south of Albany. It is 3,000 feet long, and 135 feet above the water.
Officially, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge, but it was not so named until 1994 (Roosevelt was Governor of New York when the bridge opened in 1930, just south of his Hyde Park home). Out of habit (but probably mostly for brevity), most people still refer to it simply as "Mid-Hudson Bridge."
Coordinates are taken at the Johnson-Iorio Memorial Park in Highland, which was part of the western approach to the bridge until the current cut directly through the palisade was made in the Seventies.
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