years the church moved successively to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, and, in
1930, to its present site on Riverside Drive.

Triborough Bridge

Entrances: 125th St. and 2d Ave., i22d St. and East River Drive, Manhattan; South-
ern Blvd. and Cypress Ave., Bronx; 29th St. and 25th Ave., Astoria, Queens. IRT
Lexington Ave. subway to 125th St. (bridge bus at Lexington Ave. and 126th St.) ;
or IRT Pelham subway to Cypress Ave., Bronx; or IRT or BMT Astoria subway
to 25th Ave. Toll: passenger automobiles 250.

With Randall's and Ward's islands as stepping-stones, the Triborough
Bridge strides into three boroughs—Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
The bridge proper, near the confluence of the Harlem and East Rivers, is
a Y-shaped structure comprising four overwater bridges and twelve grade
separations (or bridges over land). Its over-all elevated length of 17,710
feet is exceeded only by that of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge.

Linked with fourteen miles of highway connections, it speeds traffic by
shunting through-vehicles away from congested areas and carrying them
swiftly across the boroughs.

From Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, where it taps the Westchester
County parkway system, the northern connecting route follows Eastern
Boulevard and Whitlock Avenue for six and a quarter miles to a rein-
forced concrete viaduct between East 132d and East 134th Streets. At that
point an overland and overwater bridge, seven truss spans with a total
length of 1,600 feet, crosses the Bronx Kills to Randall's Island. The cen-
ter span, which carries two four-lane roadways and sidewalks, may be
converted into a vertical-lift bridge if the Kills should be made navigable.

On Randall's Island this Bronx arm of the bridge meets, at a right angle,
the Manhattan arm in the circular swirl of under- and overpasses of what
is probably the most ingenious traffic-sorter ever constructed. From there
the bridge marches in a single long reach of stilted viaduct and trestle
across Little Hell Gate and Ward's Island to turn eastward on suspension
cables over Hell Gate (East River) to Astoria, Queens.

No sooner does the roadway come back to earth in Astoria than it drops
into an eight-lane depressed thoroughfare to avoid Queens cross traffic.
Then, rising again, it follows Astoria Boulevard and Grand Central Park-
way, skirting Flushing Bay and the World's Fair site, and more than six
miles out in Queens, it leads into the network of Long Island State park-
ways.