Day 20
Grand Street Bridge
January 19th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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In my many years in NYC, I’ve never seen it open.
The site I found, below, says it was opened “610 times for boat traffic, and 42 times for testing” in 1990. Guess I was busy that year. ;-)
Here is an interesting site on NYC bridges, but since I could not get a report on Norton, or McAfee, on its safety, I’m using the cached version here.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=12224l13158l0l13468l6l4l0l0l0l1l122l391l2.2l4l0&hl=en&q=cache:i3R-ARQv7rIJ:http://www.bridgesnyc.com/+last+time+Grand+Street+swing+bridge+on+Newton+creek+opened&ct=clnk
And a great place to do a little urban exploring. Last time I was there the gate was unlocked, easy access to the lower level of the bridge. See big, greasy gears first hand!