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• Program - Lincoln Tunnel Dedication - Dec 21 1937

  This document is a program of activities surrounding the dedication of the Lincoln Tunnel, which took place in Weehawken and that other town on the other side of the Hudson on December 21, 1937.
• NJ Route 85 - The Palisade Avenue Freeway

  From 1956 through the 1970s, there was serious talk of replacing Palisade Avenue with a 10 lane freeway, connecting I-78 in Jersey City with the George Washington Bridge. The new highway, which would have been NJ Route 85 was never built. You can read the story of this road that never was on the nycroads.com web site.
• Historic American Engineering Record - Lincoln Tunnel

  The Historic American Engineering Record, maintained by the Library of Congress, documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This set of aerial photographs, taken in October 1991, documents the Lincoln Tunnel and its surroundings.
• Working Together Produces Results in Weehawken - World Tunnelling

  This article from the December 2003 issue of World Tunnelling magazine describes the process of rehabilitating the West Shore Railroad Tunnel for use in the new Hudson Bergen Light Rail Project.
• Medallion - Gate to Lincoln Highway -1917

  This 1917 medallion depicts the Palisades, with train passing at bottom, the Grauert Causeway traveling up the cliffs, a gate with two stone piers at the top, and is marked 'Gate to Lincoln Highway - 1917' and 'Weehawken, NJ USA' The Lincoln Highway was the first road to traverse America.
• NYCRoads.Com - Route 495

  Everything you always wanted to know about good old Route 495, the road from the Lincoln Tunnel to the Turnpike.
• Living New Deal: The Lincoln Tunnel

  A photo gallery focusing on the construction of the Lincoln Tunnel. The New Deal Network is a web site devoted to the public works and arts programs of the New Deal programs which President Roosevelt instituted to get us out of the Depression.
• NYCRoads.Com - The Lincoln Tunnel

  History and statistics about our favorite underwater crossing.
• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: Lincoln Tunnel

  The official home page of the Lincoln Tunnel, built to provide New Yorkers with access to Weehawken.
• Lincoln Tunnel Promotional Brochure

  This undated brochure, with Mayor Meister promoting the progressive nature and amenities of the township, was published to entice those looking to relocate in New Jersey to choose Weehawken.
• Lincoln Tunnel Dedication Program

  Program of the dedication of the Lincoln Tunnel, dated December 21, 1937. Two tubes are visible on Deco-style cover graphic, but only one was operational in 1937. The second tube opened in 1945.
• Lincoln Tunnel Groundbreaking Program

  15-page program titled The Midtown Hudson Tunnel Groundbreaking, dated May 17, 1934, with attached commemorative medal. The name was changed to the Lincoln Tunnel in April, 1937, to avoid confusion with the Queens Midtown Tunnel, also under construction.
• Film - Conquest of the Hudson

  The Port of New York Authority presents: Conquest of the Hudson - The Story of the Lincoln Tunnel. This 19 minute film, produced by Castle Films is undated, but looks like it was made shortly after the tunnel opened. A special thanks to Craig Berteele for providing this video!  
• Lincoln Tunnel - Emergency Jeep and Emergency Tractor

  Photograph from Lincoln Tunnel Third Tube Project, prepared in June, 1958 by the Project and Planning Division of the Tunnel and Bridges Department of the Port of New York Authority.  
• The North River Bridge (That Wasn't)

  This article from Frank Leslie's Weekly of January 23, 1892, entitled The North River Bridge, describes never executed plans for a bridge spanning the Hudson about a mile above the West Shore Ferry Houses to 71st Street in Manhattan. While it sounds like this version of the Bridge That Never Was would have been in West New York or Guttenberg, it is a sure bet that had it been built, Weehawken today would be a very different place. The caption for the large picture in this article reads: THE PROPOSED NORTH RIVER BRIDGE, EXTENDING FROM A POINT NEAR WEEHAWKEN, IN NEW JERSEY, TO SEVENTY-FIRST STREET IN NEW YORK CITY. - DRAWN BY HUGHSON HAWLEY, FROM THE ACCEPTED DESIGNS. 1 - THE BRIDGE 2 - A PIER 3 - THE PROPOSED UNION STATION AT BROADWAY AND THIRTY-EIGHT STREET, NEW YORK.
• The Proposed Victory Bridge Over the Hudson

  This article, from the September, 1920 issue of The Architectural Record, is titled: The Proposed Victory Bridge Over the Hudson Between New York City & Weehawken Alfred C. Bossom, Architect It describes a bridge that was never built.
• The Bridge That Never Was

  Colored photo postcard of a bridge spanning the Hudson that was never built. If civil engineer and bridge designer Gustav Lindenthal had his druthers, Weehawken would have been the New Jersey terminus of a suspension bridge linking 57th Street in Manhattan and the northern edge of Weehawken. His original 1920s proposal called for a double-deck bridge with the upper deck carrying 20 lanes of traffic and 2 pedestrian walkways. The lower level was to have 12 lanes of rapid transit. The proposed width of the bridge was 235 feet. The postcard is stamped Sep 30, 1945 on the back.