The in
New York City connects
Long Island City in
Queens to
Greenpoint in
Brooklyn over
Newtown Creek . It is named after
Polish military commander and
American Revolution fighter
Kazimierz Pułaski (Casimir Pulaski), probably because of the large Polish population in Greenpoint. It connects 11th street in Queens to McGuinness Boulevard (formerly Oakland Street) in Brooklyn.
The Pulaski Bridge, designed by Frederick Zurmuhlen and opened to traffic on
September 10 ,
1954 , is a
Bascule Bridge , a type of
Drawbridge . It carries six lanes of traffic and a pedestrian sidewalk over the water,
Long Island Rail Road tracks, and the entrance to the
Queens Midtown Tunnel . The pedestrian sidewalk is on the west side of the bridge, which has good views of the industrial areas surrounding Newtown Creek, the
Skyline of
Manhattan , and of a number of other bridges, including the
Williamsburg Bridge , the
Queensboro Bridge , and the
Kosciuszko Bridge . It was reconstructed in
1994 .
