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A Terra Cotta Beauty Sits Alone Beneath the Queensboro Bridge

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New York Architectural Terra Cotta Company building from side under bridge

Back in the 1800s, building material companies would sometimes construct a model structure to showcase the potential of a new, revolutionary material. In Brooklyn, the Coignet Building in Gowanus was a showpiece for reinforced concrete, first introduced at the 1867 Exposition Universelle de Paris. Sitting underneath the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City is the […]

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