The 200 Year Bridge - The New Goethals Bridge as a Roadmap

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Spoth ◽  
Seth Condell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Modal Flexibility ◽  
Steel Framing ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Truss Bridge ◽  
To Receive

<p>The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has completed the replacement of the congested and functionally obsolete Goethals Bridge, a circa 1928 steel cantilever truss bridge, with a dual-span modern cable-stayed bridge connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey and Staten Island, NY. Designed as a 150 year service life structure, the newly opened crossing paves the way towards achieving the possibility of a 200 year bridge, both in material durability, structural redundancy / resilience, and modal flexibility.</p><p>The new crossing features three eastbound and three westbound lanes plus a 3 m wide shared use path (SUP) for bicycles and pedestrians. To accommodate future expansion, the superstructure of the cable stayed spans is designed to receive steel framing to support a variety of possible transit options including light rail, while the substructure need not be strengthened for this future load. With a 274 m main span, the new crossing provides a significant maritime navigational improvement over the original 205 m steel truss span.</p><p>Herein we focus on the strategic application of corrosion protection strategies to achieve the long service life in a competitive bid environment, structural benefit of the design as relates to resiliency, modal flexibility, and operational redundancy to withstand extreme events.</p>

The Great Awakening as Artifact. George Whitefield and the Construction of Intercolonial Revival, 1739–1745

1991 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Lambert
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
New England ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
New Birth ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
George Whitefield

Throughout the 1720s and 1730s evangelical preachers sparked revivals from New England to New Jersey. In his long pastorate at Northampton, Massachusetts, Solomon Stoddard reported five “harvests” of souls in the Connecticut Valley. His grandson Jonathan Edwards succeeded him and led a spiritual awakening in 1734 and 1735 resulting in the “Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton and Neighboring Towns and Villages.” In the late 1720s the pietist minister Jacob Frelinghuysen inspired a renewal of piety among the Dutch Reformed in New York. At the same time the Presbyterian evangelists William and Gilbert Tennent reported revivals in the churches they had established between New Brunswick, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York.1 While sharing a common message, these evangelical revivals remained local, private affairs, contained within specific geographic and denominational boundaries. Although each proclaimed the necessity of a spiritual new birth and the primacy of divine grace in salvation, theawakenings did not expand into a larger, united movement.

Response to the January 1990 Arthur Kill Heating Oil Spill

1991 ◽  
Vol 1991 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-261
Author(s):  
Brian G. Bubar ◽  
J. R. Czarnecki
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive Areas ◽  
Heating Oil ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
Set Up

ABSTRACT A spill of approximately 13,500 bbl (567,000 gallons) of No. 2 heating oil occurred on January 2, 1990, from an Exxon pipeline in the Arthur Kill waterway, which separates Staten Island from New Jersey. Areas affected by the spill included the New Jersey and New York shorelines of the Arthur Kill, Kill Van Kull, and Newark Bay, including environmentally sensitive areas at Pralls Island, Shooters Island, and Fresh Kills. A preestablished Exxon management team supervised cleanup activities under the oversight of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the pre-designated federal on-scene coordinator. A central command center was set up to interact with the appropriate agencies and to conduct morning and afternoon briefings. To assist in the cleanup, Exxon used equipment of the local oil spill cooperative, Clean Harbors Cooperative, five oil spill contractors, the USCG Atlantic Area Strike Team, and U.S. Navy skimmers. Cooperative equipment was primarily operated by a team of Exxon “first responders” during the initial stages of the response. Tri-state Bird Rescue and Exxon employees were actively involved in wildlife recovery and rehabilitation activities. At the operation's peak, more than 150 Exxon personnel and 400 contract personnel were involved; over 60,000 feet of containment and 400,000 feet of sorbent boom were used; and 40 vacuum trucks, 70 boats, 10 mobile skimmers, and 4 helicopters were in service. Within three weeks more than 140,000 gallons of oil were collected.

scholarly journals NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND NOCTUIDÆ

1886 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
A. R. Grote
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Red Squirrel ◽  
The South ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Species

My earliest collecting field was the south side of Staten Island, where I found many rare insects, especially among the Coleoptera. This south beach of the Island is visited by the warm spring coming from the south very early in the year, and is a good collecting field. Staten Island is a continuation of the Jersey coast, and one finds on it southern species of butterflies such as Argynnis Idalia, which are less frequent on Long Island, the next extension of the coast to the north. So far as the fauna is concerned, I am inclined to class Staten Island with New Jersey, rather than with New York. It forms the beautiful southern boundary of New York Harbor. At the same time Mr. Davis informs us that the Red Squirrel, not uncommon on the mainland of New Jersey, is not found on Staten Island, and thus has not crossed the narrow Kills. But I have abundant faith it will yet turn up on the Island, where all good things naturally live. I have collected on Staten Island a good many of those kinds of moths which come up our coast with the warmer weather and the Gulf Stream. I have in various papers called attention to the seasonal migration, from south to north, of many species of moths, which adds so much to the fauna of the United States.

Sea floor characterization offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Schwab ◽  
J.F. Denny ◽  
Bradford Butman ◽  
W.W. Danforth ◽  
D.S. Foster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Sidescan Sonar ◽  
Sea Floor
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