Bike-train Preview: Views of the 59th Street Bridge
Channel: QueensBikeHighway
Date: 2013-04-13

The beautiful view from New York City's the 59th street bridge (Queens to Manhattan) on the morning commute of 04/08/2013.

According to Wikipedia, the 59th street bridge opened on March 30, 1909 at a price of  $18 million and 50 lives.  The top level was originally only for pedestrians and railway cars with the lower deck for 4 lanes of automobiles and 2 lanes for trolleys.  The current configuration has 9 lanes of automobile traffic and a bike/pedestrian section (where this video was filmed) which was opened in the year 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensboro_Bridge 

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge," Nick says, "is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world".
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald