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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Photo a Whenever: Photo 116. This is a picture of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge covered in fog. The Verrazano Bridge connects Brooklyn to Staten Island in New York City.
The Verrazano Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1964, and is still the 9th longest in the wold.
The Verrazano Bridge is named after the Verrazano narrows which it spans. The narrows are named after a European navigator who is believed to be the first European navigator to have entered what is now known as New York Harbor.
Finally, the bridge was the last major public works project of Robert Moses, who you can read more about on the internet, or in many of my other photo a day photos.
The picture is taken from Downtown Brooklyn. Staten Island would be on the far side of the bridge in the upper right side of the photo.
Photo a Day: Day 56. Here is a picture from the George Washington Bridge that I took while cycling across it. The picture is from the New Jersey side, looking toward the northern tip of Manhattan.
The GW Bridge was opened in 1931, and has two levels, you can just see the lower car level in the photo.
Photo a Day: Day 2. This picture was taken on the Roosevelt Island Tramway on the way to Roosevelt Island which is between Manhattan and Queens in the East River. The bridge on the right is the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th street bridge. The Simon and Garfunkel song ‘The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)’ is apparently about this bridge. The bridge doesn’t allow you to get to Roosevelt Island.
Roosevelt Island is only accessible from Manhattan by the tram, or the F tran. There is a bridge from the island into Queens.
The interesting thing about Roosevelt Island is that it is mostly populated with hospitals and apartment buildings. In the future one of the two hospitals on the island is going to be torn down and replaced with a campus of Cornell University, which I imagine will substantially change the island.
There are ruins from an old Smallpox hospital on the Island, which are actually pretty disappointing to check out.
