Now, Maggie knows more than a little about architecture. But her eye was caught by something other than towers as she beheld Manhattan for the first time in a dozen years.
Transportation is more than an eddy around the architecture of New York City.
Transportation has long expressed our civic aspirations. When the century was young, a publisher named Moses King imagined the future New York as a city of skyscrapers linked by heroic bridges at the 40th, 50th and 60th floors. Elevated trains would run over these breathtaking viaducts while airships plied the skyways. King's extravagant dream actually materialized, in a way. An elevated freight railroad called the High Line was built through factories and warehouses along the lower West Side.