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The Kosciuszko Bridge is a truss bridge that spans Newtown Creek between Brooklyn and Queens. It is a part of Interstate 278 or the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The bridge opened in 1939 and was named in honor of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish volunteer who was a General in the American Revolutionary War. Two of the bridge towers are surmounted with eagles, one is the Polish eagle, and the other the American eagle.
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