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SCOUT· 21%57m·2021-01-15·History#349 The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a Borough
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
“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) This is the story of a borough with great potential and the curious brown-tannish cantilever bridge which helped it…
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