I saw this bridge on the news the other night. I thought it was spectacular. I kept wondering if there were any environmentalist protesters trying to stop its construction. If someone was trying to build such a bridge here it would be held up for 50 years thanks to all sorts of objections.
Here's a better picture of it than the one the NY Times has published.
I love bridges. I love looking down the East River from the Queens side and seeing all those bridges. One or two are pretty ugly (the Manhattan Bridge is my least favorite), but I never tire of looking at the Brooklyn Bridge.
