Carol Kozlowski was in a panic. Looking out from a window on Mill Street on May 8, 1974, she saw roaring flames and thick smoke. The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge was on fire. And below it was ...

For 35 years, the ravaged Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge awaited a rebirth. Opened on New Year's Day in 1889, the rail bridge — now the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park — was the ...

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Considered an engineering marvel when built in 1889, the 1.2-mi Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge had burned and fallen into disrepair after 85 years of carrying commuter and freight traffic 200-ft above ...

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> A suspected jumper from Mid-Hudson Bridge appears to have been a parachutist, city police said Monday. Police said they were notified at 8:39 p.m. Saturday that someone had ...