The Kosciuszko Bridge is a pair of cable-stayed bridges in New York City that carries the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway over Newtown Creek, connecting the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Replacing a much older and structurally deficient truss bridge, the new spans opened in two phases, with the first in April 2017 and the second in August 2019. The bridges are notable for being New York City's first cable-stayed bridges, providing increased capacity, shoulders, and a dedicated 20-foot-wide pedestr