Without him, we would still reach Manhattan by canoe. Born in Zurich, the engineer Othmar H. Ammann (1879-1965) went to seek fortune in the United States. There he built a number of suspension bridges over the East River and the Hudson River, including the George-Washington Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge (1931) or the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (1939), which went from the Bronx to Queens.
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Martin Witz devoted two documentaries to famous Swiss, Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of Migros (Dutti the giant), or Albert Hoffmann, the inventor of LSD (The Substance). With Gateways to New York, it traces the personal trajectory of an engineer emblematic of Swiss rigor, as well as a vertiginous urban epic inscribed in an America gray with progress and speed.
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