<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Statistics </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Daily traffic </Th> <Td> 134,947 (2010) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Toll </Th> <Td> $4.75 (E-ZPass or Tolls by Mail) (tolled eastbound / southbound only) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Governor Malcolm Wilson--Tappan Zee Bridge, known as the Tappan Zee Bridge, was a cantilever bridge, in the U.S. state of New York, built in 1952 - 55 to cross the Hudson River at one of its widest points, 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan, from South Nyack to Tarrytown . The Tappan Zee is named for an American Indian tribe from the area called "Tappan"; and zee being the Dutch word for "sea". As an integral conduit within the New York Metropolitan Area, it connected South Nyack in Rockland County with Tarrytown in Westchester County in the Lower Hudson Valley . Federal and state authorities have been constructing a replacement bridge, the New Tappan Zee Bridge, that will cost at least $4 billion . The old bridge was decommissioned on October 6, 2017, and is currently being demolished . </P>

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