Editing Queensboro Bridge (section)

==== Manhattan approach ====
The Manhattan approach to the bridge is supported on a series of [[Guastavino tile]] vaults.<ref name="Dunlap 1999">{{cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |author-link=David W. Dunlap |date=March 7, 1999 |title=Bridgemarket Emerging, After 22 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/realestate/bridgemarket-emerging-after-22-years.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112140901/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/realestate/bridgemarket-emerging-after-22-years.html |archive-date=November 12, 2010 |access-date=February 20, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The vaults are composed of three layers of tiles, which support themselves and measure {{convert|4|in}} thick in total. A layer of glazing and small lights were installed in 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|National Park Service|1978|ps=.|pp=2–3}}</ref> The space under the Manhattan approach measures {{convert|120|by|270|ft}} across.<ref name="p277896828">{{cite news |last=Sax |first=Irene |date=May 27, 1987 |title=Waiting for Bridgemarket Construction Is About to Start Under the Queensborough Bridge |page=3 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|277896828}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1977-08-04" /> It is divided into a series of tiled vaults measuring {{convert|30|by|30|ft}} across.<ref name="NPS p. 2" /><ref name="nyt-1977-08-04" /> As the bridge ascends to the east, the floor slopes down and the ceiling slopes up; as such, the ceiling measures {{convert|60|ft}} high at its highest point.<ref name="nyt-1977-08-04">{{Cite news |date=August 4, 1977 |title=Design Notebook |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/04/archives/design-notebook-bringing-new-life-to-the-queensboro-bridge.html |access-date=October 12, 2023 |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019200353/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/04/archives/design-notebook-bringing-new-life-to-the-queensboro-bridge.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Guastavino tiles cover the steel [[superstructure]] of the approach ramp.<ref name="The New York Times 1996 i504">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=May 12, 1996 |title=Streetscapes/Rafael Guastavino;An Architect Who Achieved a Vaulting Success |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/realestate/streetscapes-rafael-guastavino-an-architect-who-achieved-a-vaulting-success.html |access-date=October 19, 2023 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014708/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/realestate/streetscapes-rafael-guastavino-an-architect-who-achieved-a-vaulting-success.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Originally, the vaults were intended as storage space.<ref name="ER p. 99" /> From the bridge's 1909 opening, the space under the Manhattan approach was used as a food market.<ref name="p277896828" /> The food market was renovated in 1933<ref>{{cite news |date=June 17, 1933 |title=59th St. Market Reopens To Praises of O'Brien: Asparagus in Hand Mayor Bids Ryan 'God-Speed' |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=12 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1336985953}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=June 17, 1933 |title=Spruced-up Market Reopened by Mayor; Stalls Under Queens Bridge to Bring City $17,500 a Year Instead of $3,250. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/17/archives/sprucedup-market-reopened-by-mayor-stalls-under-queens-bridge-to.html |access-date=January 8, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US |archive-date=January 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108024015/https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/17/archives/sprucedup-market-reopened-by-mayor-stalls-under-queens-bridge-to.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and was later converted to a sign shop and garage.<ref name="p277896828" /> By the 1970s, the space under the Manhattan approach was used by the Department of Highways.<ref name="nyt-1977-08-04" /> [[New York City Center]]'s Cinematheque leased space under the Queensboro Bridge in 1973,<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 2, 1973 |title=Cinematheque Gets Queensboro Site |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/02/archives/cinematheque-gets-queensboro-site.html |access-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305204102/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/02/archives/cinematheque-gets-queensboro-site.html |url-status=live |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Oster |first=Jerry |date=November 26, 1973 |title=City Provides Fine Site for Film History |pages=56 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120243045/city-provides-fine-site-for-film/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305204102/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120243045/city-provides-fine-site-for-film/ |url-status=live}}</ref> although the Cinematheque never opened due to a lack of money.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prial |first=Frank J. |date=May 16, 1987 |title=Construction Date Is Set at Stalled Bridgemarket |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/16/nyregion/construction-date-is-set-at-stalled-bridgemarket.html |access-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305204338/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/16/nyregion/construction-date-is-set-at-stalled-bridgemarket.html |url-status=live |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=January 16, 1977 |title=Film festival from Paris |pages=107 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120243093/film-festival-from-paris/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305204101/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120243093/film-festival-from-paris/ |url-status=live}}</ref> A developer proposed the open-air Bridgemarket under the bridge in 1976, which local residents significantly opposed,<ref name="nyt-1976-01-19" /> and Bridgemarket was not approved until 1996.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Andrew |date=October 13, 1996 |title=Bridgemarket Finally Gets Its Yes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/nyregion/bridgemarket-finally-gets-its-yes.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014709/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/nyregion/bridgemarket-finally-gets-its-yes.html |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Bridgemarket, covering {{convert|98000|ft2}},<ref name="Dunlap 1999" /><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rowan |first=Victoria C. |date=August 1999 |title=Under the Bridge |url=https://usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1999-08.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014710/https://usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1999-08.pdf |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |access-date=December 6, 2023 |magazine=Architectural Record |page=57 |volume=187 |issue=8}}</ref> opened in 1999 at a cost of $24 million.<ref name="Dunlap 1999" />{{efn-lr|About ${{Inflation|index=US-GDP|start_year=1999|value=24|fmt=c|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|US-GDP|group=lower-alpha}}}} The store operated until the end of 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last=Levitt |first=David M |date=November 20, 2015 |title=Manhattan's Most Beautiful Supermarket Is Closing |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/manhattan-architectural-gem-left-vacant-by-exit-of-food-emporium |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203034650/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/manhattan-architectural-gem-left-vacant-by-exit-of-food-emporium |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |access-date=October 12, 2023 |website=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> In February 2020, it was announced that [[Trader Joe's]] was planning to open a [[supermarket]] in this space,<ref>{{cite web |last=Cohen |first=Michelle |date=February 26, 2020 |title=See the Approved Plans for Trader Joe's New Upper East Side Store Under the Queensboro Bridge |url=https://www.6sqft.com/see-the-approved-plans-for-trader-joes-new-upper-east-side-store-under-the-queensboro-bridge/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812141423/https://www.6sqft.com/see-the-approved-plans-for-trader-joes-new-upper-east-side-store-under-the-queensboro-bridge/ |archive-date=August 12, 2022 |access-date=August 12, 2022 |website=6sqft}}</ref> which opened in December 2021.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rahmanan |first=Anna |date=December 1, 2021 |title=The First Trader Joe's on the Upper East Side Is Officially Opening Tomorrow! |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-first-trader-joes-on-the-upper-east-side-is-officially-opening-tomorrow-120121 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812141422/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-first-trader-joes-on-the-upper-east-side-is-officially-opening-tomorrow-120121 |archive-date=August 12, 2022 |access-date=August 12, 2022 |website=Time Out New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Saraiva |first=Augusta |date=December 2, 2021 |title=Manhattan's Most Beautiful Supermarket Reopens as a Trader Joe's |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-02/manhattan-s-most-beautiful-supermarket-reopens-as-a-trader-joe-s |access-date=August 12, 2022 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref>

There is a massive bronze lamppost at the end of the Manhattan approach, near the intersection of Second Avenue and 59th Street.<ref name="Zimmer 2012 s486" /><ref name="CBS New York 2012 y283" /> Formerly, there was a second lamppost near 60th Street. Both lampposts consisted of thick piers, which were topped by four [[stanchion]]s (each with a globe-shaped lamp) and a larger spherical lamp in the center.<ref name="The New York Times 2001 w416">{{cite web |last=Lippincott |first=E. E. |date=July 8, 2001 |title=Neighborhood Report: Queensboro Bridge – Neighborhood Mystery; A Historic Lamp Is Lost. Fingers Are Pointed Everywhere |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/08/nyregion/neighborhood-report-queensboro-bridge-neighborhood-mystery-historic-lamp-lost.html |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014709/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/08/nyregion/neighborhood-report-queensboro-bridge-neighborhood-mystery-historic-lamp-lost.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Each lamppost had five tiers of decorations, and the sides of each lamppost were inscribed with the names of four of the city's five boroughs.<ref name="Weaver 2015 h048" /> The lampposts were both removed in 1974 when the [[Roosevelt Island Tramway]] was developed, but the 59th Street lamppost was restored two years later.<ref name="Weaver 2015 h048" /><ref name="Jamerson 2015 y087" /> Parts of the other lamppost were found in a Queens warehouse in 2012<ref name="Zimmer 2012 s486">{{cite web |last=Zimmer |first=Amy |date=April 11, 2012 |title=Base of Historic Queensboro Bridge Lamp Rediscovered After Nearly 40 Years |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120411/upper-east-side/base-of-historic-queensboro-bridge-lamp-rediscovered-after-36-years/ |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=DNAinfo New York |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321014909/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120411/upper-east-side/base-of-historic-queensboro-bridge-lamp-rediscovered-after-36-years/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CBS New York 2012 y283">{{cite web |date=April 18, 2012 |title=Base Of Missing 59th Street Bridge Lamppost Found In Queens |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/base-of-missing-59th-street-bridge-lamppost-found-in-queens/ |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=CBS New York |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014709/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/base-of-missing-59th-street-bridge-lamppost-found-in-queens/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and rededicated on Roosevelt Island in 2015.<ref name="Weaver 2015 h048">{{cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |title=Historic Queensboro Bridge Lamppost Base on Display After Years in Storage |website=DNAinfo New York |date=June 24, 2015 |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150624/roosevelt-island/historic-queensboro-bridge-lamppost-base-on-display-after-years-storage/ |access-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119210922/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150624/roosevelt-island/historic-queensboro-bridge-lamppost-base-on-display-after-years-storage/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Jamerson 2015 y087">{{cite web |last=Jamerson |first=Joshua |title=The Mystery of a Long-Missing Relic Is Solved and Returned to the Public |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 23, 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/nyregion/the-mystery-of-a-long-missing-relic-is-solved-and-returned-to-the-public.html |access-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119210921/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/nyregion/the-mystery-of-a-long-missing-relic-is-solved-and-returned-to-the-public.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

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59thstbridge2007.jpg|Looking east from Manhattan toward Queens
Bridgemarket north side jeh.jpg|Bridgemarket on Manhattan side
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