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Elegy for a Bridge

Last week the top of a freight train hit an unused pedestrian bridge in Manayunk, causing it to collapse. Though it was no longer used by Manayunk's Venice Island workers, "the destruction of the bridge," writes Mike Szilagyi, "means the loss of one more intriguing—and visually appealing—remnant of the city’s industrial heritage." [Hidden City]