Update: Turning 84

A few years ago, I did this series of posts on the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Bayonne Bridge, which I needed to shoot under to get this photo of Laura K. Moran assisting Global Laguna–-probably here for scrap– around Bergen Point.

So let’s have a look at the construction project, one of two major infrastructure upgrades in greater NYC.  The photo below shows the New Jersey side of the project,  mirror image mostly for what’s happening on the New York side.  For scale, consider that the yellow horizontal structure–a gantry–is 500′ long.

Note the six or so support piers, 6 of what will be 26.

Below is a closer-up of the second pier from the left in the above photo.

And here’s still closer.  See the worker?

Here’s the fifth pier from the left.

Here’s about 100′ feet of the gantry.   See the worker in the boom lift, just under the support pier?

Now you see him?

Still see him?

 

Stay tuned.  Here’s a nj.com story on the work from before this summer.

I can’t wait for the project to finish and take a walk over the new east-looking walkway.  Never again will I get photos like this and this looking westward from the bridge, though.

For photos of the other bridge project, follow Kaleidoscope Eyes.