The Bayonne Bridge turns 77 today! At 5,780 feet, it was the longest steel-arched bridge in the world until bested in 1978 by The New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. The Bayonne Bridge opened a month after its northern bretheren, the George Washington Bridge, and shares the GW’s architect, Cass Gilbert, who favored the bare steel futurism of the Modern Age over the Gothic panoply of his Woolworth Building back in 1913. The Bayonne Bridge spans the old Kill Van Kull and connects the Peninsula City of Culture with the outland suburbia of Staten Island, and it serves as a companion piece to the Statue of Liberty when viewing the horizon of New York Harbor from any of the three bridges into Brooklyn. A round of clinkers to ye, O maven of Hudson County!