New Tappan Zee Bridge riles homeowners
Photo credit: Rory Glaeseman | Workers continue early construction of pilings, from barges, just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge crossing from Westchester to Rockland County, in background. These pilings allowed proposers to conduct demonstrations of boring to ascertain the composition of the riverbed and a pile-driving project that will determine the load capacity of seven locations in the future path of the bridge. The pile-driving demonstration project was the first physical preparatory work for the new Tappan Zee Bridge. (March 13, 2012)
Hundreds of homeowners along the Hudson River are dreading their new neighbors. They are the ones living closest to the aging Tappan Zee Bridge, which is to be replaced with a new $5.2 billion twin span, one of the largest construction projects in the country.
"We're trapped, it's a nightmare," said Faith Elliott of South Nyack, whose three-story colonial abuts the bridge's New York State...
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