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	Manhattan Bridge 2006 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" 12"x18" The Manhattan downtown skyline is seen here from the top of the Manhattan bridge. Built in 1909 it was the third bridge to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn. In many ways it is the most beautiful of the trio. It has delicate steel curves and abundant ornamentation. From the top of the bridge, next to the orb-like finials and with the cables reflected in the water below, the city seems like a beautiful fairy-tale version of itself.
	Arthur Kill Bridge 2005 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" This is a view downward from the 215 foot tower of the Arthur Kill Bridge. When this lift-bridge was built in 1959 it was the longest moveable-span bridge in the world, a distinction held until 2001.
	Queensboro Bridge, view toward Queens 2006 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" 12"x18" This view looks eastward (toward Roosevelt Island and Queens) from the top of the Queensboro Bridge's western tower. New York's Queensboro Bridge is a cantilever bridge, with four irregularly-spaced towers that step across the East River and over Roosevelt Island. Including approaches, the bridge is well over a mile long. It was completed in 1909, and it opened up Queens for both residential and commercial development. (Queens had only become part of NYC a few years before, in the 1898 consolidation of the boroughs.) In the upper right of this picture is the Citicorp building in Long Island City, the tallest building in Queens. Closer to the foreground of the picture is Roosevelt Island. For many years, the Queensboro Bridge provided the only automobile access to Roosevelt Island, via a car-sized elevator that carried cars and people down from the bridge deck.
	Williamsburg Bridge, View through Tower Arch 2006 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" 12"x18" The Williamsburg Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn was the second of New York’s great suspension bridges, built between 1901 and 1903. It was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was built—beating the previous record-holder, the neighboring Brooklyn Bridge, by 4 and 1/2 feet. It was the first major suspension bridge in the world with all-steel towers, and the engineering techniques used helped pave the way for almost all modern suspension bridges. Though the bridge looks ungainly from the ground, the arching steel at the top of the towers becomes graceful when seen up close, and offers what is probably the best cityscape view in all of New York.
	Williamsburg Bridge, View over cables toward Manhattan 2006 Sizes Available: 16"x24" 12"x18" The Williamsburg Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn was the second of New York’s great suspension bridges, built between 1901 and 1903. It was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was built—beating the previous record-holder, the neighboring Brooklyn Bridge, by 4 and 1/2 feet. It was the first major suspension bridge in the world with all-steel towers, and the engineering techniques used helped pave the way for almost all modern suspension bridges. Though the bridge looks ungainly from the ground, the arching steel at the top of the towers becomes graceful when seen up close, and offers what is probably the best cityscape view in all of New York.
	Broadway Bridge, NYC Sizes Available: 16"x24" 12"x18" This view looks north into the Bronx from the Manhattan-side tower of the Broadway Bridge in New York. The Broadway Bridge is a 20th-century lift-bridge that connects Manhattan Island to the mainland of the Bronx. It crosses over the Harlem River Ship Canal, which is actually a man-made waterway connecting the East River and the Hudson River. This thoroughly modern bridge, crossing over a watercourse barely a century old, nonetheless is a successor to New York's very first bridge: the old Kingsbridge, a wooden toll-bridge built in 1693. (The Kingsbridge was located a short distance north of where the Broadway Bridge now stands; the Kingsbridge crossed over Spuyten Duyvil creek, a fast-flowing tidal strait that was filled in when the Harlem River Ship Canal was constructed.)
	Hellgate Bridge, View from top of steel arch 2006 Sizes Available: 16"x24" 12"x18" Looking south from the top of the Hellgate Bridge toward Manhattan. The massive Hellgate Bridge, built in 1916, was the longest steel-arch bridge in the world, and it was built to support a load as heavy as sixty 200-ton locomotives. (With such a load, it was calculated that the bridge would flex only three inches at the center.) It remains the strongest bridge in New York, and it’s estimated that, if people were to suddenly disappear from the earth, the Hellgate Bridge would last longer than any other structure in New York City, and perhaps as much as a thousand years longer than the Brooklyn Bridge.
	Hellgate Bridge, Steel Arch seen from Randall's Island Tower 2006 Sizes Available: 16"x24" 12"x18" The massive Hellgate Bridge, built in 1916, was the longest steel-arch bridge in the world, and it was built to support a load as heavy as sixty 200-ton locomotives. (With such a load, it was calculated that the bridge would flex only three inches at the center.) It remains the strongest bridge in New York, and it’s estimated that, if people were to suddenly disappear from the earth, the Hellgate Bridge would last longer than any other structure in New York City, and perhaps as much as a thousand years longer than the Brooklyn Bridge.
	Hellgate Bridge (View of Triborough Bridge from Randall’s Island Tower) 2008 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" 12"x18" Massive stone towers at each end of the Hellgate Bridge seem to anchor the steel arch that stretches between Queens and Randall’s Island (where the rail line curves north and crosses to the Bronx). The tops of the stone towers are decorated with medeival-seeming crenellations and round windows. This photograph, through one of the round stone windows at the top of the Randall’s Island tower, looks south toward the Triborough Bridge suspension span. Manhattan’s skyline is also visible to the right. The massive Hellgate Bridge, built in 1916, was the longest steel-arch bridge in the world, and it was built to support a load as heavy as sixty 200-ton locomotives. (With such a load, it was calculated that the bridge would flex only three inches at the center.) It remains the strongest bridge in New York, and it’s estimated that, if people were to suddenly disappear from the earth, the Hellgate Bridge would last longer than any other structure in New York City, and perhaps as much as a thousand years longer than the Brooklyn Bridge.
	Park Avenue Bridge 2006 Sizes Available: 20"x30" 16"x24" 12"x18" The Park Avenue Bridge is a lift bridge that carries Metro-North trains over the Harlem River between Manhattan and The Bronx. The current bridge is on the site of what was the first-ever railroad bridge in New York, a wooden bridge built in 1840 at the very dawn of the age of railroads. Since that time, the railroad line and crossing has seen uninterrupted use, from 500 train crossings per day in the 1890s to the commuter trains that use it now. The steel lift bridge that exists now is the fourth bridge on the site.
	Triborough Bridge Suspension Span, View Towards Ward's Island & Manhattan 2005 Sizes Available: 16"x24" 12"x18" This is a view from the top of one of the narrow steel tower of the suspension span of the Triborough Bridge. The suspension span crosses between Queens and Ward's Island, over the Hell Gate region of the East River. It is the longest span of the three-part bridge; the two other spans connect to Manhattan and the Bronx. It is purely a bridge for cars, a highway suspended in the air; when it opened in 1936, it was the first and only bridge within New York City without space for a train or subway track. The Triborough Bridge was created by Robert Moses, who conceptualized not just the bridge, but the vast highway network of which it is a part. Helped by WPA funds, he oversaw a vast army of workers who constructed the three bridge spans, as well as the elevated roadway and toll plaza that covers nine acres and is supported on 1,700 concrete pillars.
	Welfare Island Bridge with Moon 2005 Sizes Available: 16"x22" 12"x17" The Welfare Island Bridge is one of the smaller bridges in New York, and maybe the most historically interesting thing about it is that, until it was opened in 1955, there was no direct car access to Roosevelt Island; any cars destined for the island had to be loaded onto elevators on the Queensboro Bridge deck (seven stories up) so they could be lowered down to the ground. The Welfare Island Bridge now connects Queens directly to Roosevelt Island. Though Welfare Island was renamed Roosevelt Island in 1973, the bridge still retains its original name. This view looks east, towards Queens.