The Joy of the Unexpected Bridge

I was thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town that’re only known about by neighborhood denizens; traditional printed maps never showed them (and it would’ve been easy). In most cases, these “unexpected” bridges came about due to drastic topography or rivulets and streams that come to the surface, getting away from the sewers where they usually reside.

Upper Manhattan is occasionally hilly in extreme. One such hill was known as Coogan’s Bluff in the past, bordering the Harlem River.