Bridge out

What happens when a flyover 90 feet in the air, positioned over a major bridge, an interstate and local streets, suddenly drops a couple of feet? Total and utter chaos, that’s what. The ramp that leads from Interstate 787 to the Empire State Plaza — driving over it has always felt like you might be sailing into space, anyway — suddenly buckled and came to rest on an 80-foot support, miraculously not collapsing entirely. But now the Dunn Memorial Bridge, my main connection to the world, is closed, several other ramps and streets are closed, and there is no way to get to the Empire State Plaza by highway anymore — and my girls are going to summer camp at the State Museum. Prepare to slog.