Third Avenue Bridge (New York City)

Third Avenue Bridge
From the south
Coordinates	40°48′27″N 73°55′57″W / 40.8076°N 73.9325°W / 40.8076; -73.9325
Carries	Five lanes of Third Avenue
Crosses	Harlem River
Locale	Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City
Other name(s)	3rd Avenue Bridge
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT[1]
Preceded by	Madison Avenue Bridge
Followed by	Willis Avenue Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Swing bridge
Total length	2,800 feet (853.44 m)[1]
Longest span	300 feet (91.44 m)[1]
History
Construction cost	$119 million[1]
Opened	August 1, 1898 (1898-08-01)[1]
Rebuilt	December 6, 2004 (2004-12-06)
Statistics
Daily traffic	55,096 (2016)[2]
Location

The Third Avenue Bridge carries southbound road traffic on Third Avenue over the Harlem River, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. It once carried southbound New York State Route 1A. The Third Avenue Bridge carries traffic south from the intersections of either Third Avenue and East 135th Street, or Bruckner Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue, in the Bronx. On the Manhattan side, the bridge funnels traffic into three locations: East 128th Street; the intersection of East 129th Street and Lexington Avenue; or FDR Drive in Manhattan.

The bridge was formerly bidirectional, but converted to one-way operation southbound on August 5, 1941 on the same day the Willis Avenue Bridge was similarly converted to one-way northbound.^[3] In 1955, the original multi-truss bridge constructed in 1898 was removed and sold.^[4] A rebuilt bridge reopened in December 1956.^[5]