The Pulaski Bridge: A Brief and Strange History
Construction began in 1947 and proved an ordeal: “provision had to be made for carrying the Queens approach over the Queens-Midtown Tunnel plaza and the four tunnels of the Long Island and Pennsylvania Railroads. It was also necessary to change the routes of water mains and sewers in the path of the new structure and to build new sewers under the Flushing line of the I.R.T. subway,” the Times reported. [photo]