Brooklyn Bridge as seen by the Manhattan Bridge on 10/16/12

This great photo, taken last night (10/16/12) around 7:30 pm from the Manhattan Bridge facing the Brooklyn Bridge shows the new World Trade Center under constructuion (tallest building in picture) and a bigger expanse of the FDR Drive.  Thank you docjayva.

Elevation of Roadway on Selected Bridges New York City

  Since many of my photo postings involve the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridges, please find attached a map showing the elevations of the roadways connected with these bridges.  The color coding was constructed to show red as the highest elevation and this appears to be, of course, the middle of the bridge. In some places, the map will show the elevation in feet in numerials.  The green line on the southern shore line of Manhattan is the FDR Drive.  Map constructed using ARCGIS and City of New York elevation file of buildings and structures.

Cable Fire Delays Subway Service near Manhattan Bridge Last Night

This photograph, taken by DOCJAYVA, is facing south on Flatbush Avenue Extension near Tillary Street.  The Manhattan Bridge is to the photographer's back.  Burning cables in a manhole just north of the Dekalb Avenue Station (the first station in Brooklyn south of the Manhattan Bridge) knocked out and disrupted subway service between Manhattan and Brooklyn last night.  The fire started about 4 pm and took more than two hours to control.  Thousands of passengers were delayed.  The photographer had to walk across the Manhattan Bridge which is to his back of the photograph.

Brooklyn Bridge as seen from Manhattan Bridge 3-29-12

This picture taken last night from the Manhattan Bridge faces south towards the Brooklyn Bridge.  Like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge is rich in transit history.  The Manhattan Bridge today carries four rapid transit subway tracks for 6th Avenue and Broadway subway services.  Many years ago, the Manhattan Bridge had a shuttle trolley that used regular overhead and at one time, I believe a set of tracks existed on the upper roadways that had a conduit that allowed some Manhattan streetcar lines that used conduits to travel as far east as downtown Brooklyn near the Manhattan Bridge extrance.  Note:  All photos shot so far for this blog is from the photography of docjayva.