The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens has opened to traffic.
The span opened early Thursday.
A ceremony on Wednesday night included a light show with music from Billy Joel via satellite from Madison Square Garden.
The bridge features five Queens-bound traffic lanes and four Brooklyn-bound lanes as well as a 20-foot-wide pedestrian and bicycle pathway.
A 7-acre site beneath the bridge in Brooklyn will be turned into a public space and park.
The first part of the new bridge was completed in April 2017.
The $873 million project is the first major bridge built in New York City since the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. The original Kosciuszko Bridge opened in 1939.
(AP)
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Be careful going east bound. There is a barrier separating the two right lanes from the two left lanes shortly before exit 35, the LIE exit.
I was not expecting this and there was no advance signage up. So when I came to it, I went into the two left lanes, and only then did I realize that if you want the LIE, you need to stay in the two right lanes. By that time it was too late, so I couldn’t exit and was forced to continue on the BQE and follow an alternate round about to get back to where I wanted to go.