It crosses the Hudson River about 10 miles north of the George Washington Bridge in NYC.

I have driven over it innumerable times. It's getting old and is actually past it's expected usable life span, hence the construction work I imagine.

Just to the north of the 350 foot high Palisade cliffs, where the 1 mile wide Hudson opens up even more into a 3-4 mile wide expanse -- hence the name Tappan Zee, from the Dutch for Tappan Sea.

Even as developed as the metropolitan area is, it's still incredibly scenic there.

The area was a favorite of the Hudson River School of early American painters, naturally. lol

The Hudson at the Tappan Zee
Francis Augustus Silva

My niece is working up there. I hope she avoided the mess!

From the story it looks like the crane was on the new one but fell across the old one (that's still being used). I remember on a clear day or night, you could see the towers (and they were around 25 miles away).

Used to have a recurring nightmare about getting crushed in machinery. Gives me the willies

that new bridge is long overdue. The TZ bridge is one of the most dangerous failures of infrastructure in the US.

I know it's past due for replacement. But my worry was always that the bridge itself would fail, not that a piece of construction equipment from building the replacement bridge would fall on it.

Is that a person, or a place, or what?

Tappan is the Indian name for the area.

Hence the playful designation as a sea by the early Dutch settlers.

Happy to be home today.

Not much to do with Republican not wanting to raise taxes to pay for stuff.

From his album 4.

Luckily it didn't happen then. I often use it when I go to NYC from the Hudson Valley. I hope that the old bridge will stay open once they clean up the mess.

Nearest alternatives are the George Washington Bridge and the bridge over Rt. 84. about 25 miles north.

=== major clusterfuk if it can't be reopened for even a week or so.

Northbound lanes are open (all 3) and southbound have 2 of 3 open now.
http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/07/cuomo_northbound_tappan_zee_bridge_reopens_to_traf.html

To the north you have the Bear Mountain Bridge (maybe 45 minutes under ideal circumstances) and the Newburgh Bridge (maybe 60 minutes under ideal circumstances). To the south, the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the I-278 bridge. So glad I don't live down there anymore or have to go anywhere near that part of NY & NJ.