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NY City Love It was just a sunny Sunday in April, my friend Tom offered to show me around in his nearly matching Z3. By the end of the day it was hard to tell who was having a better time, Tom driving his favorite places, or me in the passenger seat taking pics of it all. This is Tom's other garage for his car, in Rockaway.  Tom has a great love for Rockaway, site of the Flight 587 tragedy. He lost loved ones in the crash. This is the site.  Can ya believe this is New York City? The view from brunch at Kennedy's in Breezy Point. Breezy Point is a closed and gated community which allows people in to eat at Kennedy's.   Tom says the short red brick house belonged to John Roebling's son, Washington Roebling. Washington moved to the tall red building when he was stricken with the bends from working on the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, completing his father's work. Washington would watch the work from the tall building's high window and his wife Evelyn would shout out his commands with a megaphone to the crew below. John Roebling, also designed Roebling Bridge we love so well on the Millenium Run. Frank Lloyd Wright said: "... we used steel as beams and we used it as posts and we used all that sort of thing, just as though we were using wood. But here's Roebling coming along and some of these minds that are based on principle- elemental thinkers- and Roebling said 'but steel is strongest as a strand.'"   And so we went through Cobble Hill.   All roads dappled with trees, lead back to that Bridge, those strands of steel, and Manhattan. 
 One more reason why I love convertibles. 
 It may sound crazy to you, but I love having my Z3 in the city. How else to best enjoy the immense beauty in every direction? 
 John Roebling would not live to see his bridge completed, his son Washington finished his work on May 24, 1883. 
 And not just the Brooklyn Bridge. The East River Drive is keeping company all the way with a succession of proud and beautiful bridges.  The Williamsburg Bridge, also known as "Jew Bridge" as she released the community of immigrant Jews from the Lower East Side.  
 
 If you look carefully, we were always being watched over by the Grey Lady, the Empire State Building. 
As we ventured uptown, a glimpse of the glamorous 59th Street Bridge, for which songs have been written by Simon and Garfunkle, and her TV credits include "Taxi". I am so in love with this town, and this car. |
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