69th Street RR float Bridge
Address:
Riverside Park South
North River, Manhattan
Category: Shipping Trade Sites/Structures
Built: 1911
Engineer: James B. French
Description: New York Central Railroad Float Bridge No. 4 has a pair of hinged bridge decks suspended by cables from a barn like overhead housing. Motors inside that housing lifted and lowered the decks to align them with the floats, whose position depended on the tides and the loads they carried. (SOURCE: New York Times)
