This truss bridge formerly carried Vernon Boulevard over a Long Island Rail Road open cut at 48th Avenue in Hunters Point. It was torn down in the early 1990s, and the cut has since been mostly filled in with a park. 12/23/12
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VERNON BOULEVARD BRIDGE
December 23, 2012
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Bridges Hunters Point Queens
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ForgottenTour 34, Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridges, Manhattan/Brooklyn
June 8, 2008Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Bridges Brooklyn Manhattan
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ANCIEN REGIME: Before the Corvingtons and Crooks took over, there were all kinds of weird lampposts on the scene
February 17, 2007Streetlamps powered by electricity first appeared on New York City streets in 1892, and while from about (as far as your webmaster can tell) the 1930s on, they fell into four basic genres, the long-masted “Corvingtons“, twinlampsused on main streets and boulevards, bishop crooks, and the reverse-scrolled Type Fs. In the wild and woolly early days of [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: 145th Street 5th Avenue Bridges Brooklyn Hanover Square Manhattan
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BRIDGES TOO FAR: Until recently, strange and wondrous lamppost designs could be found on NYC bridges
March 25, 2006Paralyzing inertia is my archenemy. Despite accumulating a wealth of knowledge about the relics and remnants of the NYC of the past throughout my teens, 20s and 30s, I didn’t begin to amass a library of photographs of these kinds of things until I was 40 years old, and while over the next few years [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bridges Queens Sunnyside
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BRIDGE IN THE BACK YARD: Construction of the Verrazano-Narrows
August 17, 2003When I was a kid, they built a bridge in my back yard. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built in five years between 1959 and 1964. Prior to that, there was no way to reach Staten Island from any other part of NYC except by boat. Ironically, you could reach Staten Island from the mainland via 3 bridges, [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bay Ridge Bridges Brooklyn
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HONEYWELL STREET BRIDGE, Long Island City
March 30, 2002The Sunnyside Yards is a truly magnificent place…if you’re a railroad fan…an aficionado of the New York skyline…or a follower of ancient NYC street names, because the thousands of the fomer two and the dozens of the latter can all find something of interest here! The Yards were carved out of sparsely-populated farmland, along with territory occupied [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bridges Long Island City Queens
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CARROLL STREET BRIDGE
May 1, 1999This bridge, on Carroll Street spanning the Gowanus Canal, was built in 1889 by the Brooklyn Department of City Works (when Brooklyn was a city) and is one of two retractile bridges left in New York, and one of four left in the United States (another can be found on Borden Avenue crossing Dutch Kills [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bridges Brooklyn Carroll Gardens
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145th STREET BRIDGE
May 1, 1998The 145th Street Bridge, located in New York City, USA, is a four-lane swing bridge that crosses the Harlem River, connecting 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan with East 149th Street and River Avenue in the Bronx. It once carried northbound New York State Route 22 and New York State Route 100. Additionally, this bridge, for its proximity to the eponymous avenue, was once named the “Lenox Avenue [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bridges Bronx Harlem Manhattan Mott Haven