Goethals & Verrazzano Bridges: Interstate 278 New York (NJ Line to Exit 16) Eastbound

Driving eastbound along I-278 (the Staten Island Expressway) in New York from I-95 / New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth to the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. This video features the Goethals Bridge at 0:13 and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at 5:11.
Exit List:
Exit 4: Forest Avenue
Exit 5: NY-440 south (West Shore Expressway) - Outerbridge Crossing
Exit 7: Richmond Avenue
Exit 8: Victory Boulevard
Exit 9: NY-440 north (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway) - Bayonne Bridge
Exit 11: Bradley Avenue
Exit 12: Todt Hill Road / Slosson Avenue
Exit 13: Clove Road / Richmond Road / Targee Street
Exit 14: Hylan Boulevard
Exit 15: Lily Pond Avenue / Fingerboard Road
Exit 16: Belt Parkway east - JFK Airport
Recorded on 6/28/2024 using my iPhone 14 Pro.
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This music from 1:10 on is a wonderful contrast to how I usually think of Staten Island. You were lucky to catch the Staten Island Expressway without major traffic. Some information, heading west to east: You cross Arthur Kill on the Goethals Bridge. "Kill" is from the Dutch for waterway or canal. You are actually on the second bridge called the Goethals (pronounced "Gaw-thals") on that site. The original was built in 1928 and named for General George Washington Goethals of the Army Corps of Engineers who was also the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. The current span replaced the first one in 2017.
Route 440 South will take you to the Outerbridge Crossing, a near twin to the first Goethals Bridge (also built in 1928). The bridge which takes its name from Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the Port Authority-not from its remote location. Indeed, the bridge is not far from the southernmost point in the State of New York.
Exit 7 will take you to the Staten Island Mall on Richmond Avenue. Until 2012, Golden's Kosher Deli served all manner of goodies-and one could eat them in a vintage BMT subway car. Yes, there was a subway car inside the delicatessen!
Route 440 North will take you to the Bayonne Bridge, which you can also cross on foot. The Bayonne Bridge crosses the Kill Van Kull, the main path from the Port of Newark to the rest of New York Harbor.
Exit 13 is not far from the Fire Department's historic Rescue Company 5.
The Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built from 1959-1964 and is the only vehicular crossing off Staten Island into the rest of New York State-every other one takes you to New Jersey. Construction of the bridge needed to account for the curvature of the Earth-you are about 250 feet above the Narrows, connecting Lower and Upper New York Bay, delivering the Hudson River to the Atlantic Ocean. Not far from the bridge are the quarters of the Fireboat Firefighter, which served New York from 1938-2010. Now sitting sentinel at that site is the Firefighter II, Marine Company 9.
Safe travels throughout the rest of New York. Good for you for driving the Upper Level!