Newtown Creek partially separates the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. It originally drained most of western Queens and northwestern Brooklyn and was used as a viable waterway to barge farm goods to market. Today it is a mostly stagnant tidal basin, heavily polluted and still handling sewer overflow during rainstorms.
Landing runway 4 at KLGA takes you right past these bridges.
The two bascule bridges, Pulaski and Greenpoint Avenue, were built as replacements for earlier crossings. The Kosciuszko Bridge, rebuilt in 2019, replaced a truss span. All three are bike and hike friendly with dedicated lanes.
The author walked these three bridges and photographed details. The Pulaski Bridge plaque is a recreation of the actual plaque and the Kosciuszko plaques are from those photographs.
Please ignore motor traffic; it still likes to follow the old bridge path for the Kosciuszko bridge.
3 months ago
gc01
Thanks for all the work on these and your other sceneries; I'm downloading most of them as I type this.
10 months ago
Solidus
Thank you once again to one of our most talented and prolific New York creators. Your work is greatly appreciated!
1 years ago
Col.F.E.Cochrane