I
posted on a Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel PBS special yesterday. One of their songs talks about the 59th Street Bridge in New York. The bridge is also known as the Queensboro Bridge.
I found the following photographs of the Queensboro Bridge online, in all its glory. It was called the ugly duckling of bridges next to the swan of the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Times
praises it in a 2009 article "To Fans, Queensboro Bridge Is a Steel Swan, Not an ‘Ugly Duckling’." And I also see only powerful, and even elegant, steel in the following images.
