As we approach landfall in Bayside, Queens, we still have a choice of Clearview Expressway, or Cross Island Parkway, as our middle lane can swing either way. Meanwhile, the prohibition against changing lanes with the right is augmented by a second solid line. That's like the lane marking version of yelling.

The touchdown point in Bayside looks more bucolic from the bridge's vantage point than it would from ground level. Part of the flora, however, is from the Clearview Park golf course at the foot of the bridge. Cross Island Parkway bound traffic take a spindly winding, spaghetti type ramp down to earth.
I personally think the Clearview Expressway bound overhead directional tells people too much. It's information overload. Why not add Hillside Avenue beneath the Grand Central Parkway while they're at it? Hell, how about Union Turnpike? Hollis, Queens? Cunningham Park? The Midtown Tunnel? Also, look how big that sign is. Couldn't they spell out "Island" in "Long Is. Expwy"? And why does the Cross Island's (Pardon me; Cross Is.) arrow point up, when the ramp is going down?

Those hideously ugly yellow and gray towers off in the distance are part of the complex where my mom lives. The low slung buildings to the left with the dormer roofs are a cooperative townhouse thing that we almost moved to back in 1967, when it was relatively new. I was ecstatic, because it meant we'd have a staircase just like a real house, but alas, we ended up in another single level apartment. Today, after arthroscopy and four decades of wear and tear, I'll forego the bloody staircases, thank you.

The gray car is now bolting past the moving van, so that seems to shoot the possibility that they are the moved. Whoever is being moved is moving to Queens from upstate, as Economy Movers' area code is, or was, 914. Remember, this was all shot in November 1999, although I didn't post the original Throgs Neck pages until 2001. Since then, most of 914's territory got dumped into a new area code. Only the rich people in Westchester and its immediate environs got to keep their beloved and venerable 914 code. Well, that's it for the Throgs Neck Bridge. The Clearview Expressway is calling our name and awaiting the pleasure of our company dead ahead.