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View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 is a color photograph by German photographer Thomas Hoepker. It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of smoke rises over Manhattan in the background.
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The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable ... damage. [6] [63] Most of the ... are visible on the left side of this photo in 1938. Patronage across the Brooklyn Bridge ...
As a symbol of their unending love, couples on New York's Brooklyn Bridge are fastening locks and throwing away the keys. But not everyone is lovin' the gesture. "Couples will come and they'll ...
Richelieu arrives in New York with her damaged turret. The uppermost fire control director on the fore tower had to be dismantled for her to pass under the Brooklyn Bridge to the New York Navy Yard. The ship's armament required extensive repairs and modifications to bring Richelieu up to modern standards. First, three of the eight main battery ...
A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public after 15 years — restoring another slice of greenspace for one of the city’s most crowded neighborhoods.
The great East River suspension bridge. Connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. View from Brooklyn, looking west. The Bridge crosses the river by a single span of 1,595 feet suspended by four cables, 15½ inches in diameter, each composed of 5,434 parallel steel wires. Strength of each cable, 12,000 tons. Length of each land span, 930 feet.
On March 1, 1994, Lebanese-born Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students who were traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, killing one and injuring three others. [1] Initially considered a road rage incident, in 2005, this shooting was reclassified as a terrorist attack.