mo4ch:>New York's Tappan Zee Bridge BLOWN UP to make way for the new (VIDEOS) | Mo4ch News

New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, a rusty steel relic of a bygone era spanning the Hudson River north of Manhattan, has finally been demolished to make way for its shiny new replacement.The Tappan Zee Bridge was supposed to be quietly dismantled and shipped down the river on barges last September to minimize impact on local marine life. But as the opening ceremonies for the new bridge came to a close, after Governor Andrew Cuomo had driven across the old bridge with his mother, workers heard a "loud pop" from the structure. With the rusty old span declared structurally unstable and off-limits to workers, the only option was to forget about the fish and blow it up.Explosives placed around the columns brought the old bridge down in near-perfect symmetry with a loud boom that could be heard from miles away, bringing the span to rest just below the surface of the fast-moving Hudson, enveloped in clouds of smoke.The three-mile Tappan Zee was replaced in 2017 by the Gov. Mario M. …