Sirens that were heard throughout the City of Bayonne alerted residents to the catastrophe at the 1.5-mile Newark Bay Draw Bridge that joined Elizabethport and Bayonne. CNJ built the steel 40,000 ...

The Boyles and the Bridge The Boyle family first sacrificed to the Newark Bay railroad bridge in 1889. The boom of a schooner smashed into the bridge house, killing Michael Finlay, Gregory Boyle's ...

Spanning the bay is a 32-year-old high wooden trestle, in the center of which are two double vertical lifts, each about 120 feet long. They can be raised 50 feet to allow water traffic to pass.

The agency's study came nearly a year after a container ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, causing the infrastructure to collapse, killing six construction workers.

The only remaining public hearing on the plan to replace the 68-year-old Newark Bay Bridge with twin stayed-cable bridges will be held at 6 p.m., June 18 at the Woodrow Wilson school #10, 101 West ...

More than a dozen bridges in New York and New Jersey are among 68 US crossings that need to be checked for risk of collapse if struck by a vessel, the National Transit Safety Board said.

With the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after a massive cargo ship ... (The Key Bridge opened in 1977.) The Newark Bay Bridge has a similar design and length to the Francis ...

BRIDGE COLLAPSES, 200 PERSONS IMMERSED; Wild Scenes at a Negro Baptism in Newark Bay. Victims Flounder in Mud and Shallow Water, While Many Women Faint on Shore -- Only Four Hurt.