Othmar H. Ammann

The Swiss-born structural engineer lived here from 1913 to 1917, while working on Hell Gate Bridge (opened 1917). He went on to construct, or design, seven of the major bridges that brought people, business and prominence to New York City including the Verrazano-Narrows1 (1964), this hemisphere’s longest single-span suspension bridge; George Washington (1931); Bayonne (1931); Triborough (1936); Whitestone (1939); and Throgs Neck (1961).^[1]