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Old Kosciuszko Bridge finally comes down: See photos

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  • Smoke rises as sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge are demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • People watch from the Pulaski Bridge as sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge are demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Remnants of sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge that were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Remnants of sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge that were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Smoke rises as sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge are demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Remnants of sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge that were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo talks to members of the media who are waiting to get off of a boat after sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Remnants of sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge that were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Remnants of sections of the old Kosciuszko Bridge that were demolished using a process called energetic felling on both the Queens and Brooklyn sides of the Newtown Creek, Sunday,Oct. 1, 2017. The energetic felling required the placement of little charges at key joints on the bridge so that when the charges went off, the bridge broke apart and fell directly down.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

The 78-year-old Kosciuszko Bridge was blown up Sunday morning, using a process called energetic felling. 

The demolition was celebrated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who called the bridge “a legendary bottleneck.”

“I think there’s been traffic on that bridge and a bottleneck since the day it was built,” he said prior to the explosion. 

The first span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge opened in April, and the second span is scheduled to be completed in 2019, Cuomo said.

Scroll down to see photos from the demolition.

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