The narrow, bumpy ride over the 89-year-old Goethals bridge between New Jersey and Staten Island will be history after Friday night. The old Goethals Bridge will close down forever at 10 p.m. Friday ...

To accommodate the burgeoning traffic in the aftermath of World War I, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey built a bridge connecting Elizabeth, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y. They named it ...

After seven years' work, George Washington Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, completing a task that stymied two other engineers. He commenced his first real engineering work as a lieutenant ...

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