#440 .
1. Fort Lee, NJ,
2. Ghia is
in Ross Dock Picnic Area on the Hudson
, and 3. the
George Washington Bridge in the background (I-95 uses the GW),
Seventy five years old now, still one of the busiest suspension bridges in the world and the
ONLY 14 lane (2 lanes added in 1946, and second level added six lanes in 1962) suspension bridge in the world. Truly a
"Modern Marvel" (45 minute vid if interested).
When it opened in 1931, it was the
only six-lane susptension bridge in the world,
and for a time had the
longest center-span of any suspension bridge in the world (took the title from the Ambassasor bridge between Detroit and Windsor Ontario.
One reported solver in #441, with an excellent Google Earth pic of the exact spot as you can see.
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Note the GW bridge designer was responsible for almost all the major NYC bridges and tunnels.
Othmar Ammann
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As close as I got with Google Maps' photo from Ross Dock picnic area.
Car (red box) would have been out there in the clearing. View is southerly down the Hudson, NYC skyline (downtown Manhattan in the distant baclground) so that means the Jersey GW tower is the one in the near background.
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Fort Lee looking northeasterly across the Hudson toward upper Manhattan and points east.
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In context via Google Maps.
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