• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    9 days ago

    Officially the “Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge” but more generally simply the “59th Street Bridge”, the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you’ll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

    Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

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      8 days ago

      “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

      - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.