Photo Story: Throgs Neck Bridge

Bridge-scaler Dave Frieder is contributing to a commemorating the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Throgs Neck Bridge and Clearview Expressway.

Frieder, and admirer of legendary photographer Ansel Adams and friend of the family, has earned fame for climbing every major bridge in New York City to photograph them and surrounding vistas. He’s a fan of the Throgs Neck.

“It’s one of the more difficult to photograph from an artist’s point of view because it’s more ‘muscular’ in its design, although from inside, the Throgs Neck towers are identical to the Verrazano,” he said.

Some 421 private homes had to be demolished or moved to new foundations to make way for the 5.3 mile Clearview Expressway. 

Frieder, the Bayside Historical Society, and Patch's own Victor Mimoni, each contributed historic and contemporary photos of the bridge at all phases of construction, and of one of the homes uprooted to make way for the Clearview Expressway.

Read more about Frieder, the fascinating history of the bridge construction, and the Bayside Historical Society's .