A close-up look at the arched suspension bridge tower, the "Whitestone" style lamppost and the late 1990s vintage luminaire, which themselves had replaced other-worldly looking LPS tubed fixtures that I had lovingly nicknamed "Hotdogs".
As for other-worldy matters, how about that generous, high tech era speed limit we have here. 40 miles per hour on what's supposed to be interstate grade highway. As the decades of yore wound their way into the 1980s, 1990s and 21st century, and the transport infrastructure of New York City began to crumble, the speed limits on the worst expressways and major bridges declined dramatically. Drive over parts of the Belt Parkway or Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and you'll think you're on a side street due to the low speed limits posted.
Technically, the authorities could clock you as you cross the toll bridges, if they track your entrance and calculate your speed based on the time you reach the toll plaza, but as far as I know they don't. If they begin to, I want a commission for giving them the idea.

When this signature arched tower suspension bridge was first opened, it swayed real bad in the wind, and let's face it, for all their engineering skills back then, much of this was still hit or miss. Not a year after the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge opened, the infamous Galloping Gertie suspension bridge in Tacoma, Washington snapped in half in a windstorm. It too was not adequately trussed.
Within a few years, the Whitestone's pedestrian walkways were removed in order to add the trussing you see here. Although it marred the original vision, considering how many cars could've been on this span if a sudden gust had snapped it, it was a must-do, beyond necessary decision.
Fast forward into the 21st century and new technologies finally enabled the removal of the trusses, returning the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge back to the more graceful look it was designed to present. Believe it or not, the miracle product that allowed the trusses to be trashed was used half a century earlier for such mundane household goods as snack tables. The miracle truss killer was Fiberglass.