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Includes explanations of the bridge's engineering by workers and officers; a bibliography for further reading; a table of contents. "Spring and land in New York are the best conditions here to get on trips. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge. I love Prospect Park...." (Paul Dano) NEW YORK has many landmarks and visitor locations, but few are as old or as associated with the location as the Brooklyn Bridge, the large suspension system bridge that spans practically 1,600 ft as it links lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Indeed, the bridge is so old that Manhattan and Brooklyn symbolized the most significant and third-largest locations in America at the time of its engineering, and the East River posed a formidable enough challenge that going for a ferry across could be dangerous. Formerly known as the brand new York and Brooklyn Bridge and then later as the East River Bridge, the iconic bridge wasn't formally dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge until about 30 years after it was completed in the first 1880s. As the first material suspension bridge built-in America, it symbolized an enormous engineering feat that said the lives of several employees, including its original designer, but by enough time it was done the Brooklyn Bridge towered practically 300 ft above the drinking water at over 80 ft vast. With those sizes, it was over 50 percent bigger than any suspension system bridge currently. From its inception, the Brooklyn Bridge has been celebrated among the things that makes NEW YORK unique. Chief executive Chester Arthur went to its opening, and P. T. Barnum famously walked Jumbo the Elephant over the bridge as a promotion stunt.
