
The Third Avenue Bridge, the span that swings open and shut over the Harlem River near 128th Street, carries about 50,000 vehicles a day. On July 8, as the temperature reached 95 degrees, it didn’t. The bridge opened to let a barge through, its steel expanded in the heat, and at 2:46 p.m., it got stuck as the operators tried to close it. It took four hours and a pair of fireboats spraying cooling water on the trusses before it could pivot back to its normal position.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 15-28, 2024 من New York magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة July 15-28, 2024 من New York magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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