This is the Hojack Swing Bridge on the Genesee River near Lake Ontario, which is slated for destruction. Seems a shame, ‘cos it looks pretty cool from up here. Scott Ventura says:

There’s a movement afoot to save the bridge (which also has a ground-level photo), but the Coast Guard wants it gone since the owners (a train company) haven’t used it in years.

A little to the east lies the mouth of Irondequoit Bay, where you can see a pivoting roadway that closes off the bay from the lake in the winter months. The roadway, which forms part of Lake Road during winter, is visible here on the west bank in it’s its storage position. I’ve been told that it takes fifteen minutes to rotate it at the beginning and end of the season.

Thanks to Scott Ventura.

The Mellon Arena is home to the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins and more importantly was the setting for the 1995 Van Damme “classic” - Sudden Death. The arena was even on the movie poster along with an exploding helicopter.

The “radio tower” looking part is actually a 260 foot cantilever arm designed to support the eight steel ‘leaves’ that can fully retract in just 2 minutes. At 170,000 square feet it is apparently the “largest retractable, stainless steel dome roof in the world” - although I doubt there’s much competition for the title.

Thanks: Marcin, Sean Sims, Sixf00t4, RJW, steve fernie

Jay Soffian spotted this large type on the roof of an airplane hanger at Miami International Airport. Apparently Avborne is “one of the largest independent maintenance providers in North America”.