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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Excessively many pixels, but you can still feel groovy about them, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@[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] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] For the perfect Koch stand-in (before he was mayor) see the (original) Taking of Pelham 123.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] wow. Lee Wallace is the spitting image. Putting that movie in my queue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] 4 years before he was elected!

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