AWHILE back, Forgotten NY noted some unexpected vehicular tunnels around town on a page that got good response. It got me to thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town…
Bridges
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko isn’t the only Polish Revolutionary-era patriot honored with a bridge across Newtown Creek. Manhattan Avenue formerly connected with Vernon Avenue (now Boulevard) in Long Island City via a…
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I have written about Manhattan between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges previously, and way uptown there is also a pair of bridges fairly close to each other that connect two…
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When I snapped this shot looking east at Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard opposite Calvary Cemetery in 2011 I knew that I was taking a photo of one historic…
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Squibb Park at Columbia Heights and the BQE overpass was named for Dr. E.R. Squibb (1819-1900), a pharmacologist whose lab was located nearby. Squibb became a major commercial manufacturer; its slogan…
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I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…
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The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…
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During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand…
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Furman Street runs north from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street along the East River waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. It has undergone two separate areas of feverish activity, separated by an…
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Urban explorer Moses Gates was on hand to tell us how he got to the top of the Manhattan Bridge in FNY’s Two Bridges tour in June 2008. 4/10/14
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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…
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Your webmaster has a history with the Manhattan Bridge — much more than the Brooklyn, as it turns out. As a kid I lived along the BMT 4th Avenue line, the…