New York 1960: VERRAZANO - NARROWS BRIDGE

Friday, August 7, 2015

VERRAZANO - NARROWS BRIDGE

"Named after Giovanni da Verrazano, the Florentine explorer who discovered New York harbor in 1524, this 6,690 feet suspended structure is the world's largest suspension bridge. Opened to traffic November 21, 1964, the Narrows Bridge is the first permanent link between Staten Island and the rest of New York City."

"The S.S. United States, America's largest passenger ocean liner, passes beneath the world's longest suspension bridge at the onset of another trans-Atlantic crossing. Battery Weed of Historic Fort Wadsworth, Constructed in 1847-1861, is in the foreground."

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Mission Statement

NEW YORK 1960 is a window into the architecture and urban landscape of New York City from the end of WWII to the Bicentennial as seen through "chrome" postcards from the period. These mid-century cards were printed using a new "chromolithic" process, yielding bright, saturated colors more like a color photograph than any previous postcard printing process. The images and their descriptions provide the contemporary viewer an opportunity to understand how the city saw itself during a time of sweeping changes ushered in by post-war prosperity. They also depict how corporations and cultural institutions embraced and distilled the Modernist aesthetic. Corporations used it in the design of skyscrapers to project an image of power and progress. Cultural institutions employed it to appeal to a younger or progressive demographic. Many buildings have become icons of the era for better or worse.