Queensboro Bridge

As I have been walking all the East River bridges, it was now time to do the Queensboro Bridge.   Not the most exciting of bridges, really, but worth the trip.  I have ridden over it countless times, and viewed it many times from the Roosevelt Island Tramway, but never walked across it.   I began on the East Side, where traffic going on to the bridge remains supreme.
I saw this:

A Jackson Pollock?   Pigeon poop on the sidewalk...

The bridge itself is not great for walking; on one side of the pedestrian path are the constant fumes and noise of traffic, and on the other side, a high chain link fence which obscures the view.  One thing I did notice, though, was the color; I had always assumed that the bridge was a sooty black; it is actually painted tan and purple.

The bridge is definitely in the Erector Set style. And what appears to be a very orderly structure from a distance becomes very confused and disorderly when viewed at an angle and close up.

Some of the bridge, is held together by some form of duct tape...

Many years ago, we used to live on Roosevelt Island, and we had a view looking out over the big Con Ed plant.   It's still there:

When you get to Queens, the subway line comes up from out of the ground and you get three colors.

Otherwise, this area of Queens nondescript; I quickly got on the subway back to Manhattan.