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If I were an eccentric gazillionaire I might move the Willis Avenue Bridge to Lake Havasu, Ariz. (like that other bridge). I say this because the Willis Avenue Bridge is apparently for sale:

I know you’re probably thinking, What’s wrong with the bridge that the city’s selling it? Nothing, they’re just replacing it, starting in 2007. According to Iris Weinshall, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Transportation, the city usually dismantles a property like this one, “decomposes” it, she says, but since some of the funds for the new bridge are coming from the federal and state governments, the city’s required to try and find a new use for it. It’s old—it opened in 1901 — and it needs some attention, but it handles so much traffic that the city can’t shut it down to repair it. The new Willis Avenue Bridge, by the way, will occupy space beside the old one. It’s the first time the city is building what the Commissioner calls an “in kind” bridge.