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Brooklyn Bridge: 1883: 5,988 1,825: 5 lanes of roadway (2 Manhattan-bound, 3 Brooklyn-bound) Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains
The Intercity (Sixth Street) Viaduct was opened on January 29, 1907. It had a pedestrian walkway, two lanes for wagon traffic, and a pair of streetcar tracks. The viaduct was built in 17 months, and traveled from 6th and Bluff streets in Kansas City, Missouri, to 4th and Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, a distance of 8,400 feet (2,600 m).
To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s. [389] Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976. [390]
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).
New York City Manhattan–Brooklyn: New York [Note 10] [61] 26: John James Audubon Bridge: 482 m (1,581 ft) 3,927 m (12,884 ft) Cable-stayed Composite steel/concrete deck, concrete pylons 2x2 lanes 195+482+195
Brooklyn Bridge: Extant Suspension: 1883 1978 East River: Brooklyn and Manhattan: Kings and New York: NY-19: Queensboro Bridge: Extant Cantilever: 1909 1983 NY 25: East River: Long Island City and Manhattan: Queens and New York
Dumbo (or DUMBO, [2] [3] an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass [a]) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It encompasses two sections: one situated between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another extending eastward from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area.
In 1883, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge across the East River established a road connection to Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island. [71] In 1898, New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", and Manhattan was established as one of the five boroughs of New York City.