Dunn Memorial Bridge

Dunn Memorial Bridge
Dunn Memorial Bridge

The Dunn Bridge from Albany
Official name Private Parker F. Dunn Memorial Bridge
Other name(s) Dunn Memorial Bridge
Carries 8 lanes of US 9/US 20
Crosses Hudson River
Locale Albany and Rensselaer, NY
Maintained by New York State Department of Transportation
ID number 1093029
Design Steel girder bridge
Opened 1969
Daily traffic 36,000
Coordinates 42°38′35″N 73°44′51″W / 42.643136°N 73.747551°W / 42.643136; -73.747551 (Dunn Memorial Bridge)Coordinates: 42°38′35″N 73°44′51″W / 42.643136°N 73.747551°W / 42.643136; -73.747551 (Dunn Memorial Bridge)
Dunn Memorial Bridge is located in New York

The Dunn Memorial Bridge, officially known as the Private Parker F. Dunn Memorial Bridge, carries US 9 and US 20 across the Hudson River between Albany, New York and Rensselaer, New York. Completed in 1967 to replace an earlier span bearing the same name, the highway bridge has a steel girder design. It is named for Parker F. Dunn, an Albany native who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in World War I and is the southernmost toll-free road crossing of the Hudson.

The original Dunn Memorial Bridge can be seen in the background of this image

While traveling eastbound on the Dunn Memorial Bridge towards the City of Rensselaer, there is a noticeable stub where the road ends and traffic is "forced off" the bridge onto offramps for US Routes 9 and 20. The road was originally supposed to continue on as part of the cancelled South Mall Expressway to Interstate 90 at present day Exit 8.

The stubs at the bridge's eastern end, built for the cancelled South Mall Expressway.

Rensselaer's Riverfront Park is located under the eastern end of the bridge. Peregrine falcons have been observed nesting under the roadway since 1998, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation set up a webcam [1] to monitor them.

On July 27, 2005, the bridge was temporarily closed when a ramp leading to the Empire State Plaza split vertically, causing the roadbed to drop more than a foot. A section of the ramp, which at 89 feet (27 m) tall is the uppermost one connecting to the bridge, had slipped and come to rest on a concrete supporting pier. The Department of Transportation was alerted to the situation by a call from a commuter who had driven over the gap. Two steel towers were installed to support the ramp and it was later repaired. [2] [3]


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