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!
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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!