The scrapped plan to build a 77th Street bridge over the East River to Queens

Jan 31, 2018 |

Courtesy of the NYPL At one point in New York history, it looked very likely that the city would get a brand new bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens by way of Blackwell’s (now Roosevelt) Island. This was back in the 1870s, as the Brooklyn Bridge began rising to the south. According […more]

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