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Northern Avenue Bridge

Boston, Italy

Northern Avenue Bridge

The Northern Avenue Bridge is a swing bridge that spans the Fort Point Channel of Boston, Massachusetts. Following its closure as a road bridge in 1997, various redevelopment schemes have been proposed for the bridge, as well as outright demolition of the span. In Historic American Engineering Recor

d (HAER) documentation, the bridge is referred to as the Northern Avenue Swing Bridge. It is sometimes known as the Old Northern Avenue Bridge, as its replacement was briefly known as the New Northern Avenue Bridge before it was officially named the Evelyn Moakley Bridge.

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