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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Excessively many pixels, but you can still feel groovy about them, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"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 Gatspy.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] Vincent Scully on the then new Penn station:

“Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”