Flushing Bridge is broken down

Iron workers prepare to break down the drawbridge that was built over Flushing Creek in 1936 as part of the original four-lane Whitestone Parkway, built by Robert Moses.
The parkway led from the then-newly-built Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to the 1939 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. The bascule bridge hadn’t been opened since before the road was brought up to interstate standards as the Whitestone Expressway, in time for the 1964 World’s Fair, headed by Robert Moses.
The last remaining bascule bridge over Flushing Creek used to raise Roosevelt Avenue and the No.7 tracks out of the way - but as of press time nobody at the MTA remembers the last time it was opened.