A bridge serves as a connector as well as a point of exchange. In New York especially, its famous bridges have been indispensable to the city’s growth and development.

With the help of my new truck, I too became a bridge--literally and metaphysically. I not only conveyed material goods from one place to another, I also helped make possible a new state of mind, indeed a new life, for the people whose personal belongings I was transporting. I was thus the vital link between an old address, an old way of life, and a new.