• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    20 days ago

    Officially the “Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge” but more generally simply the “59th Street Bridge”, the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you’ll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

    Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

    • Karl Auerbach@sfba.social
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      20 days ago

      @mattblaze@federate.social I am a Manhattan know-nothing. When my ex wife’s cousin mentioned that she lived on Sutton Place I kinda just went “OK”.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      20 days ago

      “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.”

      • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
      • The Sleight Doctor 🃏@mastodon.world
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        20 days ago

        @mattblaze@federate.social Legitimately among the finest American novels ever written. When I read it as a teenager, I found its giddy prose exhilarating, but with every subsequent re-read - as I gained the maturity to appreciate its deeper meanings - it became more horrifying.

        Such careless people…