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This station opened on June 22, 1915, along with the rest of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. [2] The Myrtle Avenue station was sometimes called Gold Street in some early planning documents, [3] and in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle when the station opened. [2] The city government took over the BMT's operations on June 1, 1940.
Oldest surviving bridge in New York City Alexander Hamilton Bridge: 1963: 2,375 724: 8 lanes of I-95 and US 1: Washington Bridge: 1888: 2,375 723.9: 6 lanes of roadway: University Heights Bridge: 1908: 269 82: 2 lanes of roadway: Broadway Bridge: 1962: 558.0 170.08: 4 lanes of Broadway/ US 9 and the train: Also known as Harlem Ship Canal Bridge ...
The Manhattan Bridge opened to traffic on December 31, 1909, and began carrying streetcars in 1912 and New York City Subway trains in 1915. The eastern upper-deck roadway was installed in 1922. The eastern upper-deck roadway was installed in 1922.
The main span of 1,596' 6" was the longest span of any bridge in the world when it was completed in 1883, a period of time that firmly established the concept of municipal consolidation among the outlying cities and suburbs into what eventually became the City of Greater New York. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883.
Flatbush Avenue Extension and B and D N and Q trains of New York City Subway: East River: Brooklyn and Manhattan: Kings and New York: NY-128: Williamsburg Bridge: Extant Suspension: 1903 1983 Roadway and J and Z M trains of New York City Subway: East River
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
[174] [47] Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only bridge across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge. [183] Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, [184] 20% longer than any built previously. [185]
A once charitable enterprise: Hospitals and health care in Brooklyn and New York 1885–1915 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Scherzer, Kenneth A. The unbounded community: neighborhood life and social structure in New York City, 1830–1875 (Duke University Press, 1992).