Manhattan Bridge

BackBlip: On the way to Brooklyn, with my daughter and her husband, I reached out of the car window and used the roof of the car to stabilize my camera enough to get this shot.

In the iconography of New York, no bridge is more famous than the Brooklyn Bridge, but its largely overlooked stepsister, The Manhattan Bridge, has quietly been accumulating prestige.

The century-old, 6,855-foot-long, Federal Blue bridge appears in advertisements for Honda, Fiat and Kia, and in a number of films involving aliens, superheroes, monsters and large apes.

Its new cachet may have less to do with the borough after which it is named than with the fashionable Dumbo neighborhood on the other side (the acronym for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Dumbo has emerged from derelict warehouses on the Brooklyn waterfront to one of the hipest places to live and hang out.