Amidst the creeks and marshes upland from Midland Beach, Staten Island are two small wooden bridges, which form the last of their kind in New York City, still allowing cars to cross over. A more elaborate one is in Gowanus, Brooklyn — the Carroll Street Bridge —which is also a retractile bridge that can open and close. The Gowanus Bridge crosses over a very industrialized, hard-edged waterway but these two wooden bridges on Staten Island blend in with their raw surroundings.
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