
South Bronx: Willis Avenue Bridge









I heard it: some screeching and then metal-on-metal impact. On this corner Lincoln and Bruckner join at the on-ramp for the Third Avenue Bridge. Traffic moves fast trying to beat a long light, especially on Bruckner. (It's a great corner to catch a street hail, by the way: there's no toll, so every cab that has gone into the Bronx is trying to get back to Manhattan this way.) A car on Lincoln turning towards the bridge was hit by a guy running the light on Bruckner. The impact was enough to smash them both into another car. The result was two smashed-up vehicles on both sides of a flattened SUV standing on end. No one was killed, no one who “couldn't be saved” as they say in the New York Post. From my window I saw a teenager running up the ramp right into the embrace of a squad car.