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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. [387] 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. [388]
Length Carries Comments feet meters 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
Brooklyn Bridge: New York City, US: 486 m (1,594 ft) 1883–1903: Williamsburg Bridge: New York City, US: 488 m (1,601 ft) 1903–1926: It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Forth Bridge, completed in 1890, a cantilever bridge with two spans of 521 m was longer until surpassed by the Quebec Bridge in 1917.
New York City Manhattan–Brooklyn: New York [Note 9] [54] [55] 22: Chesapeake Bay Bridge South bridge: 488 m (1,600 ft) 6,484 m (21,273 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons 2 lanes 201+488+201
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.
However, the city approved the Seventh Avenue bridge approach in August 1958. [65] The next month, mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. said that the city was committed to building a bridge across the Narrows, but was not committed to the construction of the Seventh Avenue approach. In response, Moses wrote to Wagner that any continuing delays would ...
With its Gothic-revival double-arched stone towers and diagonal suspension wires, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the city's most recognized architectural structures, depicted by artists such as Hart Crane and Georgia O'Keeffe. The Brooklyn Bridge's main span is 1,596 feet 6 inches (486.61 m), and was the longest in the world when it was completed.
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