The
Alexander Hamilton Bridge carries eight lanes of traffic over the
Harlem River in
New York City between the boroughs of
Manhattan and the
Bronx, connecting the
Trans-Manhattan Expressway in the
Washington Heights section of Manhattan and the
Cross-Bronx Expressway, as part of
Interstate 95. The bridge opened to traffic on January 15, 1963, the same day that the Cross-Bronx Expressway was completed. For 2011, the
New York City Department of Transportation, which operates and maintains the bridge, reported an
average daily traffic volume in both directions of 182,174; having reached a peak ADT of 192,848 in 1990. The total length of bridge, including approaches, is . The parallel main spans of the steel arch bridge stretch long over the Harlem River and provide of vertical clearance at the center and of horizontal clearance.