Politics Across the Hudson

Winner of the 2015 American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter Journalism Award The State of New York built one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson , urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge, rec