Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Horizontal - BW
by James Aiken
Title
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Horizontal - BW
Artist
James Aiken
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The spans of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City glide over the East River and Roosevelt Island into the borough of Queens as the sun begins its journey over the horizon. Rendered in beautifully classic black and white.
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge � because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets � and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island. Successful plans came about in 1903 under the city's new Department of Bridges, led by Gustav Lindenthal (who was appointed to the new position of Commissioner of Bridges in 1902), in collaboration with Leffert L. Buck and Henry Hornbostel, designers of the Williamsburg Bridge. Construction soon began, but it would take until 1909 for the bridge to be completed due to delays from the collapse of an incomplete span during a windstorm and from labor unrest (including an attempt to dynamite one span). The bridge opened to the public on March 30, 1909, having cost about $18 million and 50 lives. (Information obtained from Wikipedia)
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September 16th, 2015
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Betsy Zimmerli
My old neighborhood is about 2 miles in back of those four groomed buildings. This is "my" bridge.
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