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Old picture (from Wikipedia) that I cleaned up a little bit of the Golden Gate, about forty years before the bridge showed up to ruin the view.
西元43年左右,由城中富豪MAZAEUS和MITHRIDATES所建,為了獻給AUGUSTUS和他的女婿AGRIPPA。門以捐建者的名字命名,左邊是MAZAEUS Gate,左邊是MITHRIDATES Gate。
“The name “Hell Gate” is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat, which could mean either “hell’s hole” or “bright gate/passage”, which was originally applied to the entirety of the East River.”