MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that it will close the Third Avenue Bridge in Mount Vernon to pedestrians starting on Wednesday, April 29. The closure will allow demolition to start in order to replace the nearly 120-year-old bridge. The Third Avenue Bridge carries traffic and pedestrians over the New Haven Line between 1st Street and Fiske Place in downtown Mount Vernon. The bridge is already closed to vehicular traffic. Demolition of the existing bridge is scheduled to start the first week of May. Complete removal of the bridge is expected July 2020. New girders, or support beams, will be erected and installed for the new bridge in December 2020. The project is expected to cost $10.4 million and take 18 months to complete by John Civetta & Sons, Inc., a heavy construction contracting firm based in the Bronx. The Third Avenue Bridge is one of six bridges Metro-North Railroad is replacing across the New Haven Line in downtown Mount Vernon.

-via Press Release