Looking back at when Cuomo Bridge supports began to rise in 2015

It's easy to forget, 10 years later, as we cross from Rockland into Westchester or vice versa on two blue-girded bridges, the long process it took to get there.

So many cranes, including the massive Left Coast Lifter. So many barges full of gear. So much rebar and concrete. So many rivets. The giant girders floating down the Hudson, awaiting their moment to be put into place.

Then, eventually after the new bridges rose, the old bridge — the one that opened Rockland to the wider world and connected the New York State Thruway to points east of the Hudson — came down.

But a decade ago this week, at the turn of April 2015, Journal News/lohud photographer Peter Carr captured the incremental process: Cranes against the South Nyack horizon, the Tappan Zee Bridge from Tarrytown. He also documented the rising of the new bridge's support columns — still mostly rebar at that point.

Reach Peter D. Kramer at pkramer@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Westchester NY photos from Mario Cuomo Bridge under construction 2015