HERE’S a magnificent arch bridge, probably steel clad in concrete, taking the Grand Central Parkway above Hollis Court Boulevard in Holliswood in the Fab Fifties. Hollis Court Boulevard used to be a major diagonal Queens route running from Flushing to Bellaire, but over the decades it has been interrupted and cut back because of the additions of the Long Island (Horace Harding) Expressway, Cunningham Park and the Clearview Expressway.
This modern day shot from Street View is in about the same location today; here the Clearview Expressway, completed in 1962 (though Mr. Moses wanted to run it south all the way to the Belt Parkway) has completely replaced the modest two-lane Hollis Court Boulevard and the magnificent arch is long gone; I am unsure what year it was replaced. The Clearview and GCP meet in the ultimate in spaghetti exchanges here.
To me, this railroad bridge in Manayunk, Philadelphia, quite resembles the former GCP span and who knows, perhaps they had the same architect.
1940s photograph courtesy Chris Ciesla.
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1/17/22