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Goodbye, Goethals!

Friday is the last day for the Goethals Bridge as New Yorkers know it – as it’ll soon be replaced by $1.5 billion twins spans that will eventually be used for east- and westbound traffic.

The 89-year-old bridge, which connects Elizabeth, NJ to Staten Island, will close around 10 p.m. Friday.

One of the two spans will be open to New York-bound traffic late Saturday afternoon and New Jersey-bound lanes will open late Sunday afternoon.

The second of the spans will open in 2018.

The twin spans of the new Goethals Bridge will feature three 12-foot lanes with 12-foot outer shoulder and five-foot inner shoulders.

It’s the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s first new bridge opening since the Bayonne Bridge was completed in 1931.

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