Unbuilt New York: North River Bridge
#UnbuiltNewYork: North River Bridge
Gustav Lindenthal’s 1887 plan for a North River Bridge in New York (Metropolis Books) The view of Manhattan from New Jersey would have been quite different if Gustav Lindenthal had had his way. This Czech-born civil engineer called for an enormous, 1.8-kilometer bridge in 1887 that would have spanned the Hudson River. The “North River Bridge” would have been sixty meters wide and sixty meters…