Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
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This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.
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.
@[email protected] is that the same bridge from Turk 182?
@[email protected] Indeed it is.
@[email protected] they should have cast Peter Boyle as the major instead of as a detective. He would have made the perfect Koch stand in
@[email protected] For the perfect Koch stand-in (before he was mayor) see the (original) Taking of Pelham 123.
@[email protected] wow. Lee Wallace is the spitting image. Putting that movie in my queue
@[email protected] 4 years before he was elected!
@[email protected] also in the theme song to “The King of Queens”
"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."
@[email protected] Vincent Scully on the then new Penn station:
“Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”
@[email protected] God, I would give anything to shoot with that setup.