Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about High Bridge

Seeking Safer Routes to Walk and Bike Across the Harlem River

By Stephen Miller | Jul 23, 2014 | 12 Comments

Have you ever tried biking or walking across the Harlem River? Despite a plethora of bridges, walkers and bikers often face crossings and approaches that are confusing or downright hostile. A new campaign from Transportation Alternatives and local residents aims to focus DOT’s attention on making it safer for New Yorkers to get between the […]

Parks Department: City Hopes to Complete High Bridge Rehab This Year

By Brad Aaron | Mar 26, 2014 | 5 Comments

Last year Mayor Bloomberg announced that the long-awaited restoration of the car-free High Bridge would be completed “by 2014.” Work began soon after, and the Parks Department tells Streetsblog the rehab is slated to wrap before the year is over. “While we estimate that the construction will be completed in December of this year, we […]

Bike Commuters Will Ride Restored High Bridge, After Taking the Stairs

By Brad Aaron | Jan 17, 2013 | 8 Comments

The restored High Bridge will probably be open for morning and evening commutes, but cyclists will be asked to walk their bikes on and off the bridge, according to the Parks Department. Project coordinator Ellen Macnow says the car-free bridge, which spans the Harlem River to connect Highbridge and Washington Heights, will have new ADA-compliant […]

Bloomberg Says Car-Free High Bridge Will Be Open by Next Year

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2013 | 6 Comments

After talking up bike-share on the airwaves this morning, Mayor Bloomberg headed uptown, where he and other electeds broke ground for the restoration of the High Bridge. The High Bridge is the city’s oldest standing bridge, and connects the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx with Washington Heights. Built as part of the Croton Aqueduct in 1848, […]

High Bridge Restoration Off and Running

By Brad Aaron | Feb 11, 2010 | 3 Comments

Photo:rickweller/Flickr It’s about a year-and-a-half behind the schedule announced in 2007, but the rehabilitation of the High Bridge, a pedestrian and cyclist link between Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, is off the ground. Per an email from project coordinator Ellen Macnow of the Parks Department, via Inwood and Washington Heights Livable Streets: A contract has […]

Streetfilms: Turning NYC’s Oldest Bridge Into Its Newest Bike-Ped Amenity

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 30, 2009 | 8 Comments

At October’s Walk21 Conference, I got the chance to tour the High Bridge, a viaduct connecting Manhattan and the Bronx which has been closed to the public for nearly 40 years. Opening the High Bridge to pedestrians and cyclists has been a long-held goal for many New Yorkers. (I remember reading about this effort back […]

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