Tappan Zee Bridge
The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially named Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, was a cantilever bridge in the U.S. state of New York. It was built from 1952 to 1955 to cross the Hudson River at one of its widest points, 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan, from South Nyack to Tarrytown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bridge
- Description: former road bridge in New York
- Also known as: “Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge” and “Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tarrytown Light and Lyndhurst.
Tarrytown Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Skip willits, Public domain.
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. Tarrytown Light is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Tappan Zee Bridge.
Lyndhurst
Museum
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Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. Lyndhurst is situated 1½ miles southeast of Tappan Zee Bridge.
Tarrytown station
Railway station
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarrytown station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Tarrytown, New York. The Tappan Zee Bridge is not far from the station, resulting in its use by Rockland County commuters. Tarrytown station is situated 1½ miles east of Tappan Zee Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand View-on-Hudson and Tarrytown.
Grand View-on-Hudson
Hamlet
Grand View-on-Hudson is a village incorporated in 1918 in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Piermont, east of Orangeburg, south of South Nyack, and west of the Hudson River. Grand View-on-Hudson is situated 1½ miles west of Tappan Zee Bridge.
Tarrytown
Photo: SteveStrummer, CC0.
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York metropolitan area. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line.
Sleepy Hollow
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sleepy Hollow is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. It was one of the settings for Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Tappan Zee Bridge
- Categories: cantilever bridge, road bridge, toll bridge, and transportation
- Location: Rockland County, Downstate New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yiddish—“Tappan Zee Bridge” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “塔潘齊大橋”
- Chinese: “塔潘齐大桥”
- Chinese: “大班吉大橋”
- Dutch: “Tappan Zee Bridge”
- French: “pont Tappan Zee”
- French: “Pont Tappan Zee”
- German: “Tappan Zee Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר טאפן זי (1955–2017)”
- Hebrew: “גשר טאפן זי”
- Italian: “Tappan Zee Bridge”
- Japanese: “タッパン・ジー・ブリッジ”
- Japanese: “タッパンジーブリッジ”
- Korean: “태펀지 교”
- Korean: “태펀지교”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tappan Zee Bridge”
- Norwegian: “Tappan Zee Bridge”
- Yiddish: “טאפען זי בריק”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Nyack and Nyack.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Washington Irving Boat Club and Tarrytown Marina.
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