Manhattan: City of Bridges
February 5, 2013
“Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities . . .”
– John Ruskin
Traffic on the Queensboro Bridge
I don’t know if Ruskin was referring to bridges or railroad tracks, but his images of “iron veins” and “throbbing arteries” certainly fit the bridges of Manhattan Island and their flow of traffic.
We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and under the Manhattan Bridge, but we saw the Queensboro Bridge from the air when we rode the Roosevelt Island tram across the East River. The tram runs parallel to the bridge. The tram fare is covered with your Metro pass.
Roosevelt Island tram
Queensboro Bridge viewed from the tram
Brooklyn Bridge across the East River
Brooklyn Bridge with Freedom Tower
Manhattan Bridge (posterized photo)
View of Manhattan Bridge from Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn
February 5, 2013 at 7:52 am
I have a special fondness for the Bayonne Bridge. My dear Staten Island Aunt lived just “a stones’s throw” from that bridge.
February 6, 2013 at 9:38 am
I looked up photos of the Bayonne Bridge, and I agree, it has a delightfully pleasing structure.
February 8, 2013 at 6:33 pm
I love the Queensboro from the tram. It’s a wonderful photo.
Aren’t you glad you managed your trip without a blizzard thrown in for good measure!? I was thinking of you so much today, happy you didn’t have things made difficult by the weather. I would have been an adventure, yes. But….
February 9, 2013 at 10:17 am
I am happy to have missed all the travel complications brought by the blizzard. But I can imagine walking in Central Park in the snow — wouldn’t that be an extraordinary experience.