The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the well known landmarks in the United States and is considered as a very important architectural structure. The Brooklyn Bridge contributes a lot to the economics of the country, and also created a system of transportation between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Located between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, the bridge was completed on May 24, 1883, 2:00 PM. On the time of completion the bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. [Encarta, 2003].
The main contribution of the Brooklyn Bridge is believed to be the fact that it provided easy and fast modes of transport for the range of businesses that operated in the coastal stretches of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Before the bridge was commissioned, businesses had to use the ferry to transport their goods which were cumbersome and with the commissioning of the bridge, faster road access was a blessing to the businesses, which needed to haul their goods over a longer distance [Encarta, 2003] .
In addition to providing access to a large number of business goods also the bridge was important in the sense that it became a very important conduit for urban mass transit right from the early nineteenth century when horse carts were introduced in the United States. Before the bridge came into existence, the commuters had to depend on the ferry which ran between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The ferries were often crowded and slow and the journey was made arduous during the winter climate when the trip would become really choppy. Sometimes the ferries had to be stopped for days owing to the weather and that would cause severe losses for the commuters in terms of cash and kind. In addition, the limited number of boats that plied between the two ferries was not sufficient for the number of people who wanted to travel across the ferries. "It goes without saying, that the transportation of the vast mass of humanity and freight over various ferry rides across the East River, like true love, does not always run smooth.
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The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. ... It was originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of theBrooklyn Daily Eagle,[7] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 19...
Construction is under way to create a major picture and television studio complex on 15 acres of the navy yard which will make it the premiere entertainment production center on the East Coast. ... The Brooklyn Bridge was an amazing accomplishment for 19th Century engineering. ... The bridge was originally designed by engineer John A. Roebling who died from tetanus before the bridge was constructed. ... Connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River, the bridge is 3,460 feet. ...
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For an area, that represents so much history and business' that are creating the next big thing, to be located in Brooklyn which most believe is too urban for their liking, just shows how society is now is changing for the better. ... The Brooklyn Navy Yard represents what it was like in the past, how it is today in the present and what to look forward to in the future. ... At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, especially Building 92, you experience what the past must have been like and how it was the foundation of what things are like today in the present. ... The Brooklyn Navy Yard is 300-acre ...
Toll bridges? ... Now he has another mountain to over come and that is raising 5 billion dollars in a city that is seeing one of its hardest economics times in years. One idea Bloomberg has brought forth is putting tolls on the free bridges that connects the 5 boroughs such as Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queensbury Bridge. ... This idea of camera is not a bad idea but we go back to the point of how much will it cost to set up these cameras in the four bridges. ... In my opinion making the 88,715people using the Queensbury bridge is serio...
