The northbound I-278 BQE is just leaving its famed Brooklyn Heights cantilevered section behind in this June 1998 view, heading for the Cadman Plaza overpass and the Brooklyn Bridge. The tail end of Brooklyn Heights is to the right. The industrial loft buildings of the Navy Yard district are up ahead. This was arguably my most famous photo, likely my only famous photo as it was featured in a AAA magazine article, to this day the only work of mine I know of that was published. Twenty years later Google Earth shows the scene looking not much different. The two most prominent twin lamp lighting standards, one of which was an early 1960s SLECO pole designed by Donald Deskey, are history, replaced with modern, plain vanilla aluminum standards. The other prominent absence is the small orange rectangular sign above the exit directional.

This view shows off the greenery between the cantilevered double deck highway and Columbia Street, from whose overpass I took these photos. Fast forwarding to 2017 via Google Earth, this park literally went to the dogs, being an official dog park.

In a decidedly less impressive view than the northbound, the southbound Brooklyn Queens is about to slip under the covers of the famed Brooklyn Heights Promenade after passing under the venerable looking Columbia Heights Street overpass. The greenery of the dog park to the right dogs the entrance ramp the whole way. This scene has changed remarkably little since 1998. The same green wrought iron guard rail still lines the expressway's right lane. The same 3 lighting standards appear to still be lining the right edge of the ramp and acceleration lane, although the closest one has a different luminare. This newer light fixture is likely to disappear in the next few years, along with the 3 lighting standards, the guard rails, the cantilever overhang and possibly even the overpass, when the long overdue reconstruction of the entire cantilever section gets underway.