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  Golden Gate Bridge Opens to Pedestrians

  Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA

  

  Starts 05/27/1937CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE89.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on May 27, 1937".

  San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a mile-long suspension span across a notoriously treacherous strait, opened to the public with a Pedestrian Day that drew roughly 200,000 walkers.

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  BQE Rebuild Pushed Back to a 2030 Start

  Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, USA

  

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED70% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsStreetsblog's^[3] report of 24 August 2026 on the new mayoral plan - 'Construction will start in 2030, wrap up in 2040', a 10-year $4 billion rebuild - is newer than the NYC^[2] DOT project page's 2029 start, which is where the pin's earlier date came from. No day is given, so it is dated to the last day of 2030.

  New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.

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  New Harbor Bridge Opens in Corpus Christi

  New Harbor Bridge, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

  

  Starts 06/28/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The long-awaited, $1.3 billion Harbor Bridge opened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas".

  After years of safety-related construction halts and cost overruns, the new cable-stayed Harbor Bridge across Corpus Christi's ship channel finally opened to traffic in 2025.

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  Little Island Opens on the Hudson River

  Little Island, Hudson River Park, New York, NY, USA

  

  Starts 05/21/2021CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The park officially opened on May 21, 2021."

  Little Island, a 2.4-acre park raised on sculpted concrete piles over the Hudson River, opened to the public at the site of Manhattan’s former Pier 54.

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  The Vessel Opens at Hudson Yards

  Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York, NY, USARelated Companies

  

  Starts 03/15/2019CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous coverage of the public opening. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Vessel opened to the public on March 15, 2019".

  Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.

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  Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion

  Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Norfolk, Virginia, USAVirginia Department of Transportation

  

  Starts 08/27/2027SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCEin 338 daysGiven as scheduled, per VDOT and the source^[1]: "the revised project schedule sets... a final completion date for August 27, 2027."

  Virginia is expanding the world's first bridge-tunnel, adding new tubes and widened approaches at Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base on Earth, more than 50 years after it first opened.

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  The Brooklyn Tower Finally Receives Its Certificate of Occupancy

  9 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NYJDS Development Group

  

  Starts 04/25/2025CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the building did not receive a permanent Certificate of Occupancy until April 25, 2025."

  The Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the borough's first supertall skyscraper, received its certificate of occupancy, issued as an extension of its temporary permit, years after residents began moving in.

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  LA's New Sixth Street Viaduct Opens as the 'Ribbon of Light'

  6th Street Viaduct, Santa Ana Freeway, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90021, United States

  

  Starts 07/09/2022CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Dramatic new 6th Street Bridge opens, delivering a 'love letter' to Los Angeles," reported the day of the public opening.

  Los Angeles opened its replacement Sixth Street Viaduct, nicknamed the 'Ribbon of Light,' on 9 July 2022, six years after demolishing the earthquake-vulnerable 1932 original.

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  One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central

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  Starts 09/14/2020CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."

  One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.

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  The Spiral Opens at Hudson Yards

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  Starts 11/07/2023CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Spiral — a 2.8-million-square-foot office skyscraper located at 66 Hudson Blvd. in Manhattan — has officially opened," reported in November 2023.

  Bjarke Ingels Group's The Spiral, a 314-metre office tower wrapped in cascading green terraces, opened at 66 Hudson Boulevard as Pfizer's new global headquarters.

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  One Za'abeel Opens With the World's Longest Cantilever

  One Za'abeel, Dubai, UAEIthra Dubai

  

  Starts 02/10/2024CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The development was completed in December 2023 and officially opened on 10 February 2024."

  Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

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  Construction Begins on New York's Hudson River Rail Tunnel

  North River Tunnel, Weehawken, New Jersey

  

  Starts 11/03/2023CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "construction finally began Nov. 3 on the Hudson River Tunnel portion of the Gateway Program^[2]".

  Crews broke ground on the Hudson Tunnel Project, a new rail tunnel meant to relieve the century-old, storm-damaged North River Tunnel beneath the Hudson River.

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