It spans the Kingsbury Run ravine, between Sidaway Avenue and East 65th Street, and is Cleveland's only suspension bridge.

[2] While the Tod-Kinsman Bridge successfully connected the adjacent neighborhoods, the structure became an obstacle for the Nickel Plate Railroad traveling below.

[1] During the Great Depression, the Kingsbury Run area became a shanty town for displaced and out-of-work people.

Safety Director Eliot Ness burned the entire shanty town in an attempt to stop the murders.

In the 1976 case Reed v. Rhodes, Judge Frank J. Battisti said in a court memorandum and order that the city of Cleveland and the school district had chosen not to repair the bridge in order to continue the neighborhood segregation and prevent black students from easily walking to the white schools on the other side of the bridge.