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The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company , the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m).
The bridge, composed of stone abutments and a timber deck, was demolished in 1917. The oldest crossing still standing is High Bridge, built in 1848 to carry the Croton Aqueduct from Manhattan to the Bronx over the Harlem River. [6] This bridge was built to carry water to the city as part of the Croton Aqueduct system.
The bridge cost $15.5 million to build (in 1883 dollars) and an estimated number of 27 people died during its construction. [9] Other East River bridges, which would be built soon after, included the Williamsburg Bridge (1903), [10] [11] the Queensboro Bridge (1909), [12] and Manhattan Bridge (1909). [13]
The Manhattan Bridge connection eliminated a bottleneck where trains using three of the four BMT Southern Division lines from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, were forced to use the Manhattan Bridge or the Montague Street Tunnel before going onto the BMT Broadway Line to Midtown Manhattan (or onto the Nassau Street Loop).
Andrew Lloyd Webber's absence from New York City's stages will be at most 14 months, with “Cats” returning in June 2024 at the World Trade Center's new Perelman Performing Arts Center. The ...
I-74 Bridge aka the Moline to Bettendorf Veterans Memorial Bridge 1933; Huey P. Long Bridge (1935) Blue Water Bridge (Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward, Ontario, 1938) Consulting Engineer Manhattan Bridge (1909) Market Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) (1926) Ambassador Bridge (Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, 1929)
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A New York City cat used up all but one of his nine lives when he plunged nine stories from his owner's penthouse, and survived. Samuel Jacobs came home to his twelfth story penthouse on Tuesday ...