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New York's old Tappan Zee Bridge has been brought down in a spectacular demolition.

The eastern span of the 63-year-old bridge across the Hudson River in upstate New York came down in a controlled demolition at 10.52am on Tuesday, marking the end of an era for commuters in the region.

Despite bone-chilling temperatures of 29 degrees, hundreds gathered on the river banks and a nearby pier to watch the bridge come down.

Roughly 6,500 tons of steel fell about 140 feet into the river, where dive teams and boats will remove the debris in the coming days.

A section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge is brought down with explosives in this view from Tarrytown, New York on Tuesday morning

The explosions went off at 10.52am, after crowds had waited for an hour to see the demolition

A series of explosions on vertical supports brought the span down without damaging the new Tappan Zee built alongside, officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

The western span of the bridge will be brought down by the end of the year, officials said. 

The demolition was originally scheduled for January 12 but had to be postponed due to high winds. 

Boats were diverted to a 300-foot channel on the western side of the river prior to the demolition. 

The eastern span came down some 63 years after it first opened across the Hudson River

The new Tappan Zee is seen in the background as the old bridge is brought down

Some 6,500 tons of steel fell about 140 feet into the river, were the debris will be removed

Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier told the AP prior to the demolition that vessel traffic would be shut down for nearly an hour during the implosion.

Original plans were to remove the Tappan Zee piece by piece and avoid the use of explosives that could have an impact on Hudson River fish habitats. Eight counties had requested some of the 150 deck panels to be salvaged for reuse in other bridges.

But experts determined the old bridge was structurally unsound, preventing workers from continuing the piecemeal takedown.

The new bridge project was launched by the state Thruway Authority in 2013 after decades of political squabbling.  

The old bridge was decaying and overburdened by the 140,000 vehicles that traveled it each day - substantially more than its designed capacity.

The Governor Malcolm Wilson–Tappan Zee Bridge first opened in December 1955, and crossed the Hudson River at one of its widest points. 

The crossing acquired its name after the an Indian tribe called the Tappan, while Zee is the Dutch word for sea. 

Pictured before the demolition, is a side-by-side view of the old bridge (left) and the new bridge (right). The old one was opened in 1955

The old Tappan Zee Bridge is seen in 2014. The bridge stood from some 63 years

An aerial view shows steel and concrete piers for the old Tappan Zee bridge under construction in the 1950s. The Bridge connects Nyack and Tarrytown

Pictured are cranes working over the steel and concrete piers for the under-construction Tappan Zee bridge in July 1954. The bridge was opened in December 1955

This general view looking toward the toll bridge on the Tarrytown side of the old Tappan Zee Bridge was taken on December 15, the day the $60million bridge opened

The crossing was built by the engineering firm Madigan-Hyland and designed by Emil Praeger. 

Praeger went with a cantilever design, which is constructed with a rigid structural element and projects horizontally into space, supported on only one end. 

The total length of the bridge approaches was 16,013 feet long, and located about 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.  

The last vehicle to travel the 3.1-mile bridge was a 1929 Model A Ford Phaeton, driven by Seth Kestenbaum, in October 2017.  

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