TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The demolition of the old Tappan Zee Bridge happening Tuesday morning.
Demolition with explosives to remove the eastern part of the former bridge between Westchester and Rockland counties is scheduled to begin around 10 a.m.
It’s already been replaced by the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, which carries Interstate 87 traffic over the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City.
The Tappan Zee, which opened in 1955, was a poster child for America’s crumbling infrastructure. Shifting steel plates gave drivers unnerving glimpses through road cracks of the chasm below.
There are plans to dismantle the western portion without explosives sometime this year.
https://pix11.com/2019/01/15/watch-live-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-underway/
Coulda saved a ton of money by hiring some towel heads to hijack some planes and crash into it. It worked exceedingly well 18 years ago. Even made taxpayers pay for clean-up. What a con!
Well, there goes another NY icon I remember from my childhood trips to a family camp in the Seven Lakes area…I preferred going over Tappan Zee than the George Washington bridge…I just thought the Tappan Zee was more interesting looking. Thanks for posting Angel.