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After a fierce winter in (1866-1867), all ferries were stopped between Manhattan and Brooklyn. This isolated Brooklyn from Manhattan and worried people who did business between the two and became a huge problem for NY. Luckily enough, German immigrant John Roebling started building a suspension bridge between the two cities in 1869 and finished 14 years later.

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