The Iron Crossing at Blackwells Island Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A linen-era city stitched together

A linen-era city stitched together by irrigation canals and the slow

its tall conical shaft and lantern-room geometry inked with the precision of engineers who knew the 8th District's hurricanes would test every course of masonry they specified

with Alcyone at their center

and the slow blue haze that settles over the highlands at dusk

the white pavilions of the Columbian Exposition

The Iron Crossing at Blackwells Island Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A linen-era city stitched togetherThe Iron Crossing at Blackwells Island a study of the Queensboro's lattice spans vaulting over the East River toward the asylum shadowed strip once known for almshouses and madhouses, its cantilevered ironwork drawn with the gravity of an engineer who knew he was stitching Manhattan to Queens. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers,