Queensboro Bridge

Preserved as Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

GPS

40.756098003374, -73.952781960201

BOOK

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of nonolfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The Great Gatsby

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Built between 1901 and 1909 to connect Manhattan with Queens via Roosevelt Island, it is a large two-level steel bridge resolved through a cantilever structure. It was designed by engineer Gustav Lindenthal, with Henry Hornbostel as consulting architect for the aesthetic treatment, and it opened to the public on 30 March 1909. At the time of its opening, its main span reached 1,182 feet (360 m) and it was one of the largest cantilever bridges of its era. In 2011, it was renamed the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.

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