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Tunnels, bridges & industrial relics

Forgotten tunnels, rail bridges, shipyards, theaters and mid-century oddities: the machinery and the monuments that built and decorated the city. Photogenic places that curious travelers love.

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29 places

Entrance of the Bayard-Condict Building on Bleecker Street in NoHo, Manhattan
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Bayard-Condict Building

Bayard-Condict Building · Sullivan’s only NYC skyscraper, with winged angels

Brooklyn Army Terminal on the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Brooklyn Army Terminal · the Army’s giant concrete supply base

Historic U.S. Navy photograph from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, first image
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard · from battleships to a working industrial hub

The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, the abandoned Cobble Hill Tunnel beneath Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Cobble Hill Tunnel

Cobble Hill Tunnel · Brooklyn’s sealed 1844 railway tunnel

Historic view of the Domino Sugar Refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Domino Sugar Refinery

Domino Sugar Refinery · Brooklyn’s landmark sugar giant

A runway at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field · Brooklyn’s historic airfield on Jamaica Bay

The open-air colonnade of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the Bronx Community College campus
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Hall of Fame for Great Americans · a colonnade of bronze busts

The Hell Gate Bridge, a steel arch railroad bridge over the East River in New York City
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Hell Gate Bridge

Hell Gate Bridge · a 1917 steel rail arch over the East River

The High Bridge crossing the Harlem River between Manhattan and the Bronx
Tunnel, bridge & industry

High Bridge

High Bridge · the city’s oldest bridge, now a walkway

The grassy slope and stone walls of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Irish Hunger Memorial

Irish Hunger Memorial · an Irish hillside with a real cottage

Postcard of the Joralemon Street Tunnel dated 1913
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Joralemon Street Tunnel

Joralemon Street Tunnel · the 1908 subway tubes from Manhattan to Brooklyn

Brick-and-terracotta facade of the former Loew’s Valencia Theatre on Jamaica Avenue in Queens in sunlight
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Loew’s Valencia Theatre

Loew’s Valencia Theatre · atmospheric movie palace turned church

Bell Boulevard in Bayside, Queens, near 77th Avenue and the former route of the Motor Parkway
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Long Island Motor Parkway

Long Island Motor Parkway · the first car-only highway, now a Queens trail

Old printed illustration of the Heine monument from a Jewish encyclopedia
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Lorelei Fountain

Lorelei Fountain · the marble monument no German city wanted

The Lorillard Snuff Mill, a stone building beside the Bronx River
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Lorillard Snuff Mill

Lorillard Snuff Mill · oldest tobacco factory building in the U.S.

Historic photograph of the wrecked train after the Malbone Street wreck of 1918 in Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Malbone Street Wreck

Malbone Street Wreck · the deadliest crash in NYC subway history

Taxicab at the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in Queens
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Marine Air Terminal

Marine Air Terminal · LaGuardia’s landmark flying-boat terminal

Minton’s Playhouse, the Harlem jazz club on West 118th Street
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Minton’s Playhouse

Minton’s Playhouse · the Harlem club where bebop took shape

The Coignet Stone Company Building at Third Street and Third Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Coignet Stone Company Building

Coignet Building · New York City’s oldest concrete building

Marble statue of a kouros, a standing nude youth, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tunnel, bridge & industry

New York Kouros

New York Kouros · an Athenian grave statue at the Met

A New Jersey Transit and Amtrak train on the Northeast Corridor entering the Hudson Palisades near the tunnel portals
Tunnel, bridge & industry

North River Tunnels

North River Tunnels · rail tubes under the Hudson to Penn Station

The Arthur Kill vertical-lift railroad bridge beside the Goethals Bridge
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Old Goethals Bridge

Old Goethals Bridge · the 1928 Staten Island bridge, now gone

The Parachute Jump steel tower on the boardwalk at Coney Island
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Parachute Jump

Parachute Jump · retired 1939 World’s Fair ride at Coney Island

Baroque terracotta facade of the Loew’s Paradise Theater on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Paradise Theater

Paradise Theater · a Baroque 1929 movie palace in the Bronx

The Pepsi-Cola sign seen from Center Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Pepsi-Cola Sign

Pepsi-Cola Sign · a neon landmark on the Queens waterfront

The Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument column seen from the southwest in Fort Greene Park
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument

Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument · a giant column above a crypt

The TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, with its winged concrete roof
Tunnel, bridge & industry

TWA Flight Center

TWA Flight Center · Saarinen’s 1962 bird-shaped terminal at JFK

Sign at the McGovern-Weir Greenhouse near Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
Tunnel, bridge & industry

Weir Greenhouse

Weir Greenhouse · an 1895 glass-and-iron greenhouse by Green-Wood

The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with its clock tower and domed top
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Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower

Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower · Brooklyn’s clock tower with a banking hall like a cathedral