It's been called the "Eighth Wonder of the World," and on Friday the Brooklyn Bridge turns 136 years old. The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883. German engineer John A. Roebling was hired to ...
Undoubtedly, much of the mania and madness that has occurred on top of New York’s bridges has been lost to history, but here are a few stories that managed to live on in the annals of time. From ...
The construction of Brooklyn’s iconic bridge encompassed the lives of three Roebling family members over the course of more than twenty years of planning and construction. In a talk at the New York ...