Love it or hate it, construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge is sure to draw huge crowds over the coming months and years.

Not only are two spans going up, but how many of us have had a chance to see a mega-project like this rise before our collective eyes?

While both Rockland and Westchester offer numerous lovely vantage points from their shores, the official go-to viewing sites will be in Nyack’s Memorial Park and RiverWalk Park in Tarrytown. Platforms with binoculars, signs and seating are expected to open sometime this summer.

“People are going to come so we might as well plan for it,” Tarrytown Village Administrator Mike Blau said. Both villages will receive $50,000 through the project’s $20 million community benefits programs, which is equally funded by the state Thruway Authority and Tappan Zee Constructors, the team designing and building the $3.9 billion crossing.

The Tarrytown viewing area will be set up at the end of West Main Street, adjacent to Pierson Park. There’s already a round deck there, surrounded by a stone wall. It can comfortably fit 15 people, Blau said.

At least two binoculars on stands will be in place, along with signs about local history and information about the construction equipment in the water.

“When you see something come out of the river, I think a lot of people will be curious and will want to go look at it,” Blau said.

Both character-rich villages also are in line to cash in from the visitors through 2018, when the project is expected to wrap up.

“We see it as a unique economic opportunity,” Nyack mayor Jen Laird-White said. “The more people that come to look at the bridge, the more they’ll stop in Nyack and eat lunch or have a cocktail or buy something in our stores.”

The village was already planning a major renovation of its fishing pier, with $150,000 already in hand from New York’s state department.

Measuring 90 feet long by 30 feet wide, the current pier, lined with gravel and bordered by large boulders, will be transformed into a destination with a wood surface, decorative lighting, wood rails, fixed and moveable benches and tables and a curved end resembling a boat.

The project still has to be bid and construction could start as early as June, Nyack Village Administrator Jim Politi said.

The mayor said there’s some talk of a having a temporary stop-gap measure until then so people have someplace to look out on the Hudson, especially with the expected arrival of the humongous floating crane known as the Left Coast Lifter during the next several weeks.

“People love to watch things getting built,” Laird-White said.

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