right across the bridge/right over the bridge

[Vladv1]

"Now whether we were thrash before Anthrax were, I don’t know if it was before. What’s weird is, we were right over here, we grew up in New Jersey, right across the bridge. Anthrax was right over the bridge in Queens, doing their thing. And I had almost never even really heard of them".

Caught In A Mosh, by Martin Popoff".

Why use the similar phrases two times? Can "right across the bridge" have a more figurative meaning, like "within NY metro" or near, while "over the bridge" is more literal.

 

[Skrej]

He just repeats it for emphasis. Depending upon where he lived in Jersey, he probably had to cross a tunnel or two plus a bridge or so. Queens is on an island with a couple of other islands between it and Jersey. However, that's all with a 30 or 40 minute ride, depending on traffic so it's still quite close.