The Brooklyn Bridge by Charles River Editors (.ePUB)
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The Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge: The History of America’s Most Famous Bridges by Charles River Editors
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Overview: perpetual monument that will make this city’s name ring around the world and renew the magical fame which the Golden Gate enjoyed in the days of ’49.” – S.F. Examiner editorial, March 24, 1925
New York City has countless landmarks and tourist spots, but few are as old or as associated with the city as the Brooklyn Bridge, the giant suspension bridge that spans nearly 1,600 feet as it connects lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Indeed, the bridge is so old that Manhattan and Brooklyn represented the largest and third largest cities in America at the time of its construction, and the East River posed a formidable enough challenge that taking a ferry across could be dangerous.
Originally known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and then later as the East River Bridge, the iconic bridge wasn’t formally dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge until about 30 years after it was completed in the early 1880s. As the first steel suspension bridge built in America, it represented an enormous engineering feat that claimed the lives of several workers, including its original designer, but by the time it was finished, the Brooklyn Bridge towered nearly 300 feet above the water at over 80 feet wide. With those dimensions, it was over 50% larger than any suspension bridge to date.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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