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A prior attempt to link Brooklyn and Staten Island, using the Staten Island Tunnel, had commenced in 1923 but was canceled two years later. [2]: 135 [10] [11] That tunnel would have extended New York City Subway service from Brooklyn to Staten Island. [12] This proposal was also revived with the announcement of the Liberty Bridge.
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. [1] He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing all 128 aboard the two aircraft and six people on the ground. The accident was the world's deadliest aviation disaster at the time, and remains the deadliest accident in the history of United Air Lines.
The bridge, which carries 24,000 vehicles a day between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Ind., was to reopen Saturday evening. Semi dangling from bridge over Ohio River leads to dramatic rescue in ...
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1883 Brooklyn Bridge stampede: mass unrest 12 [116] 2003 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash: maritime 11 [117] 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing: terrorism 11 [118] 1970 Trans International Airlines Flight 863: aircraft 11 [119] 1854 W. T. Jennings fire: fire 11 [92]: 29 1984 Palm Sunday massacre: homicide 10 [120] 1956 Bush Terminal explosion ...
The Fremont Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that occurred at the intersection of East State Street and Smith Road in Ballville Township at 6:37 p.m ...
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, [ 3 ] which was later overtaken by John A ...