Landmarks · 1952
The Tudor City Bridge
the 42nd Street overpass
What is true
When 42nd Street was lowered, the old tunnel became an ornamental bridge and entrances were stranded up to 17 feet in the air.
What it became
A span built over a hole where a passage used to be. Some doors here open onto a drop.
Mind the gap
When 42nd Street was lowered, the old tunnel became an ornamental bridge — and some doors were left open seventeen feet above a drop. Wren is crossing. Tap to drop a span across each gap before she reaches it. Mind the gap.
the bridge gives way…
She crosses. The span holds where the passage used to be.