Greenpoint Avenue Bridge — Attraction in New York

I worked on this bridge from December 1986 thru April 1988. It was a rough place back then and it was a disaster for the contractor (Morrison-Knudsen Co./Boise, Idaho) that I was working for. They were a western USA firm trying to break into the NYC market. It cost 2X times the bid amount with interesting issues with the labor coalitions, the unions, the mafia, the city of New York and the NY DOT. For an engineer from small town/rural USA it was not a place that was familiar or comfortable. I've been back to visit several times over the years, but "Never say Never" to live and work there again but it would cost someone a lot of money. I was glad to see it in my rear-view mirror when driving away to my next construction job. The bright side was that I meet a lot of real nice and interesting people there. It truly was a melting pot. The down side is my car was broken in 3 times and graft was rampant.

There was an oil storage depot behind the site and the highlight of my stay there was a trench catching fire because of the leaked petroleum products into the ground water. Bright spot was when we saw fish (after the pile hammer shocked them silly) that actually lived there as Newton Creek was so polluted that everyone said that there was nothing living there. We dredged all kinds of things out of the creek when we were building it. Cars, motorcycles,...

My favorite bridge. It deserves to be built new and put some colorful LED lighting on it. I lived in Long Island city side for 6 years and crossed this all the time to get to my parents in Brooklyn. It gets crazy with heavy trucks and car traffic during the day but at night is really chill. I used to watch the July 4th fireworks from here till it got too crazy with people and police shut it down 😒. I regret leaving this beautiful neighborhood so I decided to move back from...

If your going over the bridge to Queens from Brooklyn by bicycle get your affairs in order. Say goodbye to love ones. The Queens side intersection is a mess of trucks and multiple roads all converging. Pedestrians also must be masters of the video...