Manhattan Bridge
The first suspension bridge ever built with a Warren truss, still carrying four subway tracks over the East River.
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Opened December 31, 1909 and designed by Leon Moisseiff, it runs 6,855 ft with a 1,480 ft main span. Carrère and Hastings gave the Manhattan end an ornamental arch and colonnade, now a New York City designated landmark, worth a look before you cross.
What to look for
- The arch and colonnade at the Manhattan entrance, designed by Carrère and Hastings and designated a NYC landmark
- Four subway tracks split two-to-a-side around the lower-level roadway, alongside seven vehicular lanes
- Two 350-foot towers strung with four main cables and 1,400 vertical suspender cables
It links Canal Street in Lower Manhattan to the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn, with the Brooklyn Bridge just to the west.
Manhattan Bridge is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.