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Elias Rios cleans glass panels on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Elias Rios cleans glass panels on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists walk on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists walk on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists walk on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists walk on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists use an outdoor electric escalator near a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Tourists walk on a pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand near Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday Sept. 25, 2017. The bridge had been closed since July 5. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 25, 2017 - 11:03 pm
 

The pedestrian bridge linking the New York-New York and MGM Grand reopened Monday, just one day before the Golden Knights play their first preseason home game at the nearby T-Mobile Arena. The bridge had been closed since July 5.

However, construction on the bridge connecting the New York-New York and Excalibur on the Strip’s southern end will continue through Dec. 29, with ongoing traffic lane restrictions beneath the span running between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. on weeknights

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