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George Washington Bridge. The George Washington Bridge â known informally as the GW Bridge,[4] the GWB,[5] the GW,[6] or the George[7] â is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Originally called the Potomac River Bridge, the structure was renamed in April 1968 to honor the governor of Maryland during whose administration the bridge was planned and built. There were no bridges across the Potomac River south of the nation's capital prior to Dec. 1940.he opening of the bridge on Dec. 15, 1940, gave MDTA customers a new route to the South. Before the bridge was built, travelers heading from eastern and southern Maryland to Richmond and Norfolk, and points further south, crawled through Washington, D.C., along US 1.