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| Manhattan (1979) |
I absolutely love it whenever I spot the Queensboro Bridge (aka the 59th Street Bridge) in films. Whenever I visited family, I’d take the N Train, which pops out of an underwater tunnel right next to it. Or walk along it. The bridge was built in 1909 to connect Manhattan on the Upper East Side to Long Island City in Queens and has been featured in countless romances and movies over the years.
You can spot it in iconic films like Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), apartment scenes in When Ladies Meet (1933), Living on Velvet (1935), My Man Godfrey (1936), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), The Tender Trap (1955), Pillow Talk (1959) and An Unmarried Woman (1978). It has been the backdrop for many memorable moments on the big screen.
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| When Ladies Meet (1933) |
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| Living on Velvet (1935) |
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| My Man Godfrey (1936) |
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| Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) |
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| The Tender Trap (1955) |
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| Pillow Talk (1959) |
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| An Unmarried Woman (1978) |
The Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel song 59th Street Song (Feelin’ Groovy) was based on the bridge. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway observes, “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
