QUEENS Midtown Tunnel & Verrazano Narrows Bridge

Queens Midtown Tunnel on 21st February 1940. 

Queens Midtown Tunnel under the East River on 13 March 1940. 

Verrazano Narrows Bridge, 1980. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and the Verrazzano) is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. 

It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows. The double-deck bridge carries 13 lanes of Interstate 278: seven on the upper level and six on the lower level. The span is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, who in 1524 was the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River.