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Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began on January 2, 1870. [47] The first work entailed the construction of two caissons, upon which the suspension towers would be built. [65] [5] The Brooklyn side's caisson was built at the Webb & Bell shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and was launched into the river on March 19, 1870.
List of toll bridges § United States; Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record; Category:Lists of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places; Category:Lists of river crossings in the United States; Other topics. Transport in the United States; Rail transportation in the United States
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge is a 1972 book about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge written by popular historian David McCullough. It provides a history of the engineering that went into the building of the bridge as well as the toils John A. Roebling , the designer of the bridge, went through ...
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.
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.
Photo of Fernbridge bridge, now the longest reinforced concrete bridge still in use, then called Eel River bridge, Humboldt County, California, United States. c. 1912. Fernbridge (bridge), Fernbridge (near Ferndale) Foresthill Bridge, Auburn; Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay Area; Muir Trestle, Martinez
Former criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Richman, who wrote “Building the Brooklyn Bridge 1869-1883,” explained how his interest in the spectacular span dates to the Reagan Administration ...
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City.Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.