#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…
#UnbuiltNewYork: Central Park Gates
Richard Morris Hunt’s 1863 plan for Central Park gates Around the same time Egbert Ludovicus designed his “Arcade Railway“, architect Richard Morris Hunt, fresh of a tour in Bonapartist France, took part in a competition to dress up the entrances of New York’s Central Park along 59th Street, which is where the avenues meet the park. His designs were a little over-the-top for park architect…
#UnbuiltNewYork: Arcade Railway
Proposed New York City arcade railway below Broadway This was essentially the first subway proposal for New York City. In the 1860s, Egbert Ludovicus Viele, an engineer, came up with a plan for what he called an “Arcade Underground Railway”. It involved replacing the roads with railways and building another street level on top for carriages and pedestrians. Owners of property along Broadway…
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