So I FINALLY made it to Bay Ridge on Sunday.  My number two on “Things to do before I leave NYC List.”

Well, it was everything a girl could hope for, and I must admit I had the song “How Deep is Your Love” playing on  repeat in my mind. Ah I love the BeeGee’s!

View after getting off the subway

Now I’ve been to 100th street in Brooklyn and Queens!

There s/he is. (What gender is a bridge?) My mom told me she wanted to drive me there when I was a kid (after I became obsessed with Saturday Night Fever.) Unfortunately, we never got around to it. I told her last night, I finally went and she said “Why?” Guess the dream was more mine than hers! Duh!

It was very interesting to be in Brooklyn and have the closest borough be Staten Island.  I think the husband and I sat possibly, maybe where Tony Manero (aka John Travolta) sat with his lady friend in the movie. Or I could be horribly wrong. But visiting this site made me think back on the symbolism behind this bridge in the film. During the film, it is easy to make the assumption that the bridge leads to Manhattan…it does not. For years I thought that this bridge led to Manhattan then I got my hand on a map.

I think ultimately the bridge symbolized Tony’s desire to get out of Bay Ridge but also worked as a tie to his past, family, and tradition. Perhaps, this has been written up before, but I’ve never thought about the film I loved as a 13 year old in my 26 year old eyes. And I am also horribly unnerved by the “was it rape” scene.  Ugh. I don’t like how Tony wasn’t punished for that but then I guess it exists to make him more complex. Whatever. That film would have been made much more differently today.

I think my next stop is Wave Hill in the Bronx.