Kew Gardens Bridge offers another precedent for I-670 Cap

We wrote a few months ago about the the I-670 Cap. A lot of people thought it was extremely cool, as did I, and "important."

A thoughtful reader writes to tell us about something quite similar but built many years ago: a Long Island Rail Road overpass in Kew Gardens (Queens, New York). It has an overpass with shops to connect two sides of the tracks and conceal the railroad below.

He says that "i've driven over this bridge without realizing it was in fact a bridge."

Here's the Aerial view. Here's the pedestrian-eye view at Lefferts Boulevard and Austin Street.

Pretty amazing, I'd say.