Market Street Bridge, also known as the Second Street Bridge, is a vehicular bridge over the

Passaic River Passaic River ( ) is a river, approximately long, in Northern New Jersey. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, ...

crossing the Passaic- Bergen county line in Passaic and Wallington in northeastern New Jersey. The double-leaf bascule bridge was built in 1930 and fixed in the closed position in 1977. It was reconstructed in 2002. It carries a two-lane street and sidewalks in a late-19th and early-20th century industrial area along the river. An earlier structure built at the crossing in 1894 was damaged during the Passaic floods of 1902 and 1903 but survived. It is one of three bridges crossing the river between the two municipalities, the others being the

Gregory Avenue Bridge Gregory Avenue Bridge, earlier known as the Main Avenue Bridge, is road bridge over the Passaic River in northeastern New Jersey, United States. It is the 7th bridge to be built at the river crossing. Originally built in 1905 as a moveable bridge ...

and the Eighth Street Bridge. Two other crossings of the Passaic have been known as Market Street Bridge, the since-removed

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bridge at Newark Penn Station and the extant vehicular bridge at

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