NYC Bridge Photography

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

that's an old boundary marker.  MNK is Magyar Nepkoztarsasag, aka "People's Republic of Hungary".  The commie title was used from the late 1940s (I forget the exact year? 1947? 1949?) to 1989/90 or so.

I suppose 1949, otherwise I would have been born in Hungary with a different mother.
(long story concerning my grandparents and my dad)

[vdeane]

I talked to someone working for the Port Authority at the George Washington Bridge about this once. Basically, they aren't worried about tourists snapping photos, but they apparently have caught people obviously intentionally taking closeups of the steel framework and whatnot, and that is cause for concern.
But, since it's impractical to write or enforce a selective ban on certain things, they just blanketly ban the whole bridge.

A blanket ban is not the answer.  Those people should be instead reported to the police or the FBI, not simply told they can't take a picture.  Where's the common sense?
is "not" the answer, as opposed to is "now"