Washington Bridge and Speedway
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| WASHINGTON BRIDGE, across the Harlem River, from 181st Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan Island to the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx, was built in 1889, cost $2,700,000, is of granite and steel nearly a half mile long, and is one of the highest alone arched bridges in the world. It is an important unit in the projected highway between Long Island and New Jersey which includes the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River and the proposed Tri-borough Bridge across the East River |
