Ninety-nine years ago last Sunday, the Queensboro Bridge opened to traffic - and modern Queens was born."The Queensboro Bridge was undoubtedly the single most important factor in the creation of the borough as we know it," said Bob Singleton, co-author of a new book that documents the creation of the celebrated span through archival photographs.
"Images of America: The Queensboro Bridge," published last week, is a collaboration of the Greater Astoria Historical Society and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society.
Featuring 127 pages of insightfully captioned photographs, illustrations and maps, along with six short essays, the book brings to life the beginnings of the bridge that punched a ticket to urban development for what was then a mostly rural Queens County.
Book celebrates Queensboro Bridge
15 comments:
" punched a ticket to urban development "?????
Oh god...this guy is worse than Corey Kilgannon at the Times.
Worse than Denis Hamill with his "fulvous leaves of fall"?
Now I didn't say he was THAT bad.
Singleton looks pretty damn fine in that picture.
Lauinger just punched a ticket to cornyville. And with drivel like this he'll soon be punching a one way ticket to a career at the Queens Ledge. Puke.
Singleton looks pretty damn fine in that picture.
hahahahahahahahahehehehehehehehohohohoho
"Even during its construction, the bridge reflected the unrivaled multiculturalism that would eventually define Queens."
Good god, can't they just leave this alone. Like Queen Catherine, it just goes on and on and on....
Lot better than the Russian they got to do a hatchet job on the Astoria Prebyterian Church a few years back.
But one of the co-authors
kept referring to it as
the "59th Street Bridge" to me
in a few phone conversations
with me.
Some Queensite!
But one of the co-authors
kept referring to it as
the "59th Street Bridge" to me
in a few phone conversations
with me.
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I lived in Queens my entire life and that is what we call it.
Well Simon and Garfunkel were from Forest Hills and their song is called "The 59th Street Bridge Song"
What, a book about Queens that doesn't mention diversity? underground railroad? diversity?
Queen Catherine? diversity? about a community about to be 'improved' with development? diversity?
My! my! my! Like a dog walking on its hind legs, the point is not how its done, but that it is even done at all.
Not me bub.....I've lived in Queens
for nearly half a century
and I call it the Queensboro Bridge!
That's because Simon & Garfunkel
were Manhattan biased,
living in their Forest Hills bubble.
And the View59 condos should be renamed QueensViews.
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