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The High Bridge reopens after more than 40 years

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The High Bridge spanning the Harlem River reopened to the public after more than 40 years on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • People gather on June 9, 2015, for the reopening of the High Bridge after the span connecting Manhattan and the Bronx was closed to the public for more than 40 years.
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • The High Bridge spanning the Harlem River reopened to the public after more than 40 years on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., ( 2nd left) Celebrating the reopening of the High Bridge the bridge is being reopened as the only interborough bridge designed exclusively for pedestrians and bicyclists. In addition, the restoration of the High Bridge will once again reconnect the two boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx with more than 125 acres of green space with baseball fields and basketball courts. June 9, 2015
    Photo Credit: Uli Seit
  • Looking toward the Bronx from the Manhattan side of the Harlem Bridge, which reopened on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • Visitors to the newly reopened High Bridge look north toward the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Remnants of the Old Croton Aqueduct are also visible in the lefthand side of the image.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • Railroad tracks are visible looking south from the newly reopened High Bridge, pictured on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • A historical marker on the newly refurbished High Bridge, pictured on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, describes how it was once a destination for day trips.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar
  • Pedestrians on the newly reopened High Bridge connecting the Bronx to Upper Manhattan on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
    Photo Credit: Cristian Salazar

After 40 years of being closed to the public, officials reopened the High Bridge over the Harlem River to foot and bicycle traffic on Tuesday.

The bridge, built as a critical link carrying drinking water from the Croton Aqueduct system, was also a popular promenade after it was completed in 1864. But after it fell into disuse in the 1970s, the bridge connecting the Bronx and Manhattan was closed to the public.

In 2012, a major rehabilitation effort got underway to reopen it to the public.

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