Monday, July 21, 2014

Woolworth Building with Freedom Tower

Fantastic picture showing the famous pair. One, the former tallest building in the world, the other, rising like a phoenix to be the tallest building in the United States. Beaux Arts meets Post-Modern.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Queensborough Bridge, 59th Street Bridge, Ed Koch Bridge from Roosevelt Island





The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge and now the Ed Koch Bridge. The City of New York maintains no tolls on this bridge and it is accordingly quite popular. While the bridge does have a pillar on Roosevelt Island there's no way to drive from that bridge to the island. A trolley used to make a stop on the bridge and passengers used to be able to take the elevator down. In these pictures I am taking the photo looking at Queens and then I use the cameras zoom to zoom in to the top of the pillar. The bottom picture if the very tippy top, probably a red light at night to warn potentially low flying airplanes.