| Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges | |
| Other Name: | College Bridge[1] |
| Carries: | Bicycles and pedestrians |
| Crosses: | Raritan River |
| Locale: | New Brunswick and Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey |
| Maint: | NJDOT |
| Id: | NJ 1203150[2] |
| Id Type: | NJ Bridge ID |
| Architect: | Morris Goodkind |
| Designer: | Morris Goodkind |
| Design: | Open spandrel deck arch |
| Material: | Reinforced concrete (Morris) Steel (Donald)[3] |
| Spans: | 15 |
| Builder: | Parker and Graham Inc. |
| Open: | (Morris) (Donald) |
| Named For: | Morris Goodkind, Chief Bridge Engineer and designer Donald Goodkind, son of Morris and designer of steel bridge |
| Traffic: | 55,658 (2013) |
| Coordinates: | 40.4926°N -74.4131°W |
The Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges are a pair of bridges on U.S. Route 1 in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The bridges cross the Raritan River, connecting Edison on the north bank with New Brunswick on the south.
The northbound span, a concrete arch bridge, is named after its designer, New Jersey Highway Department engineer Morris Goodkind. This span was completed in 1929 and reflects the Art Deco styling of the time. Along both sides of the bridge, there are historical plaques that read of the site's significance to both the Lenape Indians and the American colonists. Originally named the College Bridge, it was renamed the Morris Goodkind Bridge on April 25, 1969.[4] Morris had a son, Donald, who also became an architect and engineer for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Donald designed the southbound bridge, a steel span bridge built in 1974, which was named after him in 2004.[5]
In the 1983 musical film Eddie and the Cruisers, fictional rock band leader Eddie Wilson was believed to have drowned when his 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air went off the Morris Goodkind Bridge on March 15, 1964.
In The Sopranos episode "Nobody Knows Anything," Detective Vin Makazian leaps to his death from the Donald Goodkind Bridge.[6] [7]