Gateways to New York chronicles the extraordinary career of Swiss structural engineer Othmar H. Ammann, who emigrated to New York in 1904 and transformed the skyline with groundbreaking bridge designs. His legacy includes the George Washington Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck, and the Verrazano-Narrows.

Ammann’s work defined the modern American bridge—and the century that shaped it. This beautifully told documentary places his life and designs within the sweeping story of 20th-century America: the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, mass motorization, suburbanization, and post-war prosperity.