The
Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (originally and often referred to as the
Marine Parkway Bridge) is a
vertical-lift bridge in
New York City, in the
U.S. state of
New York, that crosses
Rockaway Inlet and connects the
Rockaway Peninsula in
Queens, with
Flatbush Avenue to
Floyd Bennett Field,
Belt Parkway, and the
Marine Park neighborhood in
Brooklyn. Opened on July 3, 1937, it carries four motor traffic lanes, and a footpath on the western edge. The center span is raised and lowered 100 times a year to allow vessels to pass beneath the roadway; it is long and is only above the water but can be lifted to a height of 150 feet above the water.
Cyclepaths along both sides of the Parkway connect northward to Brooklyn. The operation of this bridge includes the maintenance of the Marine Parkway from the toll plaza to
Jacob Riis Park. Though a city-owned and operated bridge, it connects two parts of
Gateway National Recreation Area, a unit of the
National Park System:
Floyd Bennett Field and
Jacob Riis Park. The bridge is designated as
New York State Route 901B, an unsigned
reference route.