Greenpoint Avenue Bridge
The Greenpoint Avenue Bridge is a drawbridge that carries Greenpoint Avenue across Newtown Creek between the neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Blissville, Queens in New York City.Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bascule bridge
- Also known as: “J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include MoMA PS1 and Borden Avenue Bridge.
MoMA PS1
Museum
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 22-01 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the Young Architects Program with the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA PS1 is situated 1 mile northwest of Greenpoint Avenue Bridge.
Borden Avenue Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Borden Avenue Bridge is a retractable bridge in New York City, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. It carries vehicular and pedestrian traffic across Dutch Kills, a tidal waterway that is a tributary of Newtown Creek. Borden Avenue Bridge is situated 2,100 feet north of Greenpoint Avenue Bridge.
Hunterspoint Avenue station
Railway station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Hunterspoint Avenue is a station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road, within the City Terminal Zone. It is located at 49th Avenue between 21st Street and Skillman Avenue in the Hunters Point and Long Island City neighborhoods of Queens, New York City. Hunterspoint Avenue station is situated 3,700 feet northwest of Greenpoint Avenue Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blissville and Sunnyside.
Blissville
Neighborhood
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
Sunnyside
Neighborhood
Photo: Dialt0ne, Public domain.
Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It shares borders with Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east and Maspeth to the south.
Greenpoint
Neighborhood
Photo: Jleon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River.
Greenpoint Avenue Bridge
- Categories: bascule bridge and transportation
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.73342° or 40° 44′ 0″ northLongitude
-73.94028° or 73° 56′ 25″ westOpen location code
87G8P3M5+9VOpenStreetMap ID
way 371929851OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeWikidata ID
Q1028093
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Greenpoint Avenue Bridge” goes by many names.
- French: “pont de Greenpoint Avenue”
- French: “Pont de Greenpoint Avenue”
- Hungarian: “Greenpoint Avenue híd”
- Japanese: “J. J. バーン・メモリアル橋”
- Japanese: “グリーンポイント・アベニュー橋”
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