Pelham Bay Bridge

The Pelham Bay Bridge, also known as the Amtrak Hutchinson River Bridge, is a two-track movable railroad bridge that carries the Northeast Corridor over the Hutchinson River in the Bronx, New York, upstream from the vehicular/pedestrian Pelham Bridge.

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Type: Bridge
Description: railroad bridge in the Bronx, New York
Also known as: “Amtrak Hutchinson River Bridge”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pelham Bridge and City Island station.

Pelham Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The Pelham Bridge is a bascule bridge located in the New York City borough of the Bronx, just downstream of the railroad Pelham Bay Bridge. It carries Shore Road and a walkway along the downstream side, over the Hutchinson River. Pelham Bridge is situated 750 feet southeast of Pelham Bay Bridge.

City Island station

Historic building

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

City Island station, is a former railway station within Pelham Bay Park, along the Hell Gate Line in the Bronx, New York. A larger stone station house was designed for the station by Cass Gilbert and built in 1908, remaining in use up until the 1930s. City Island station is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Pelham Bay Bridge.

Baychester Library

Library

Photo: Ian Effendi, CC BY 2.0.

Baychester Library is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Pelham Bay Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Co-op City and Pelham.

Co-op City

Neighborhood

Photo: Sacme, CC BY 3.0.

Co-op City is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods.

Pelham

Photo: Sscheinfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pelham is a town in Westchester County, New York. It contains villages called Pelham and Pelham Manor.

Baychester

Neighborhood

Baychester is a neighborhood geographically located in the northeast part of the Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are East 222nd Street to the northeast, the New England Thruway to the east, Gun Hill Road to the southwest, and Boston Road to the northwest.

Pelham Bay Bridge

Categories: railway bridge, bascule bridge, Warren truss, and transportation
Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.86341° or 40° 51′ 48″ north

Longitude

-73.81789° or 73° 49′ 4″ west

Open location code

87G8V57J+9R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 522569231

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=bridge

Wikidata ID

Q20880724

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In Other Languages

From German to Hebrew—“Pelham Bay Bridge” goes by many names.

German: “Pelham Bay Bridge”
Hebrew: “גשר הרכבת מפרץ פלהאם”

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