Anchorage
02/20/04
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is the world's sixth-longest suspension bridge.
Via Lazytree, photos of the Brooklyn storefronts corresponding to camera mail-order businesses with bad reputations.
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I really dig this picture. Spectacular.
Are we going to get see some shots of the lower 42nd Street, 8th Avenue platform?
Posted by: Steve at February 20, 2004 08:49 AM
Sorry, the specific picture I dig is the storefront one ... I didn't realize it was all part of the anchorage post.
Posted by: Steve at February 20, 2004 08:50 AM
42nd Lower Level is nearly impossible to get to unless you want to walk the trackbed either north or south of the station and then walk down the approach ramps into the station. Or you could just crack open the grating on the platform and look sketchy :).
Posted by: Clayton at February 20, 2004 11:12 AM
Apparently these photos are so boring that people are talking only about photo sets that may or may not be posted over the weekend!
Maybe it's just a bridge, but it's an ENORMOUS bridge. _I_ like it, anyway.
Posted by: Mike at February 20, 2004 11:38 AM
I love this bridge... used to live at Fort Hamilton until I was eight... I have a nice picture I took of the bridge at sunset with my mom's 126 camera back then; there was a really good view of the bridge from one of the base's playgrounds.
Last time I went to Brooklyn I made a point of coming over on the Verrazano.
Your pictures are great, thanks, Mike!
Posted by: Rob at February 20, 2004 01:25 PM
I've moved out of the city for school and I drive over this bridge every time I visit home. (Like right now) The only greater new york bridge is George Washington Bridge which while not as long is just as grand. (Especially at night during the fog.)
While the Brooklyn Bridge is quite amazing (just take a look at it from the subway over the Manhattan bridge) it just doesn't come close.
-Francis
Posted by: Francis at February 21, 2004 10:44 AM
I like the store front also....brings back thoughts of a old 'hood, but its funny, im not that old to actually remember ever patronizing a store like that. Funny thing is..in the distant future so one will take a photo of the "too Hot to Wear" store front and someone will wax nostalgic about that....saying "remember places like that?...i miss those days"....hehehe
Posted by: Daron at February 21, 2004 10:52 AM
As much as I hate Robert Moses and his cookie-cutter bridge designs (the Verrazano, Throgs Neck and Whitestone are all basically the same thing), I have to admit that the Verrazano is one hell of a bridge. It does have its flaws, like the lack of train tracks or a bike path and the fact that it contributed to massive sprawl in Staten Island.
Posted by: Mike at February 21, 2004 11:14 AM
Some people might think storefront pictures are boring, but considering the rate of change in NYC nowadays they will be nostalgic about the pictures a few months from now. Keep up the good work and if it looks interesting to you, shoot it and that's it. Anyone who has any other theories about what is "good" is simply wrong.
Take a picture so it lasts longer!
Posted by: Jack at February 21, 2004 01:27 PM
I am trying to find an accurate count of how many workers died in the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to settle a dispute. I had heard 8 men died in total, 4 of which fell into the footings for the towers while they were being poured. Any guidance to where I might find this info would help.
Posted by: Rick at March 8, 2004 12:53 PM
Satan's laundromat??
WHAT TYPE OF A STUPID NAME IS THAT??
Satan is such a dirty spiritual being in moral and mental sense, I can't see how he can even be clean in any form of hygenic sense, either!!
In my theory, he proabably hasn't washed his underpants, since the day the archangel Michael scared him senseless!!
Posted by: Jesus's messenger in Doc Marten boots at November 4, 2004 10:23 AM
THE GRAND VZ. WHILE BEING BOTH MIGHTY AND MAJESTIC, THE VZ WAS A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. S.I. WAS ONCE A TRANQUIL COZY HAMLET THAT HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO A CESSPOOL OF CRIME, GREED, POLLUTION AND JUST PLAIN SHIT. IN 30 SHORT YEARS THE VZ HAS TURNED S.I. FROM A SILK PURSE INTO A SOWS EAR.
THANKS MR. MOSES.
GJC.6th GENERATION STATEN ISLANDER.
Posted by: G.J.C. at January 7, 2005 06:40 AM
In answer to Ric's question, only one life was lost when the Verrazano Bridge was built. You can read all about it in a book written by Gay Talese entitled "The Bridge."
Posted by: liz at September 12, 2005 06:52 PM
Now, I have a question. I am in need of a picture of the Verrazano Bridge when the flag was hung from it for (I believe) a 4th of July holiday years ago. It didn't last long (due to the high winds) but I know I've seen photos of it before it became tattered. Any clues as to where I can find it?
Posted by: Liz at September 12, 2005 06:55 PM
I bought a HUGE light up oil painting of this bridge today. The artists that did the painting in 1965 name was REED does anyone know his first name? It was though the Chicago moulding Company...