Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
| Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel | ||||
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 The tunnel portal in Brooklyn
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| Official name | Hugh L. Carey Tunnel | |||
| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Interstate 478 | |||
| place | New York City | |||
| length | 2779 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 2 (each with two lanes) | |||
| construction | ||||
| start of building | October 28, 1940 | |||
| completion | May 25, 1950 | |||
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| NW portal in Manhattan | 40 ° 42 '19 " N , 74 ° 0' 55" W | |||
| SO portal in Brooklyn | 40 ° 40 ′ 52 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 18" W. | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (officially Hugh L. Carey Tunnel ) is a toll road tunnel under the East River with two tubes and a total of four lanes, which connects the New York districts of Manhattan and Brooklyn on Long Island .
The tunnel, which opened on May 25, 1950, was passed under the northeast tip of Governors Island , to which, however, only an inlet and outlet tunnel leads. With a length of 2,779 m under New York Harbor , it is the longest underwater vehicle tunnel in North America . It forms the core of Interstate 478 between Interstate 278 and New York State Highway 9A (NY-9A), West Side Highway from the World Finance Center. In South Brooklyn, its mouth and driveway separate the Red Hook waterfront from Carroll Gardens to the north.
It is operated by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority . The building design comes from Ole Singstad . Construction began on October 28, 1940, and its completion was delayed for years due to the Second World War .
On December 8, 2010, the New York government decided to name the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel after former Governor Hugh Carey . The name was officially changed to Hugh L. Carey Tunnel on October 22, 2012.
On October 29, 2012, the tunnel was completely flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy .
literature
- Robert A. Caro : The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York, button, 1974.
