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Published: 14:13 GMT, 19 January 2018 Updated: 19:55 GMT, 19 January 2018A fascinating time-lapse video shows how workers removed the main span of a New York-New Jersey bridge.The Goethals Bridge has connected Elizabeth, New Jersey to Staten Island, New York since 1928.Video shows workers removing the 350-foot cantilever span on the night of January 15. The 350-foot cantilever span of the Goethals Bridge was deconstructed the night of January 15 The Port Authority filmed an eight-hour time lapse video of the span being lowered via a pulley system 135 feet to a barge belowThe workers took eight hours to lower the span onto a barge floating in the Arthur Kill - a body of water - via a pulley system, Staten Island Live reports.The 350-foot span was lowered a total of 135 feet.The span was then taken to the scrap yard at Port Newark. The remaining 150 feet on either side of the main span will be demolished throughout the year.    The span was due to be taken to the scrap yard and the remaining parts of the bridge - which has connected Elizabeth, New Jersey to Staten Island, New York since 1928 - will be dismantled over the course of the year A new bridge replacing the old is due to be opened this year and will have more and wider lanesA new replacement bridge, which began construction in 2014, is expected to be finished this year.The new bridge will have more and wider lanes than the old one.  Read more:...