The Lincoln Tunnel Runs Under the Hudson River, Not Over a River

There is no river above the Lincoln Tunnel. The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile-long vehicular tunnel that passes beneath the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan, New York City (at 39th Street).

It consists of three tubes (opened 1937, 1945, 1957) and carries ~120,000 vehicles daily. The "river above" is the Hudson itself—the tunnel is submerged under its bed.