Before the Brooklyn Bridge was built, there was no way to cross the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan, or Manhattan to Brooklyn, except by boat. Traveling between them was extremely inconvenient.
There was a ferry system, but it was unable to accommodate large numbers of people. The ferries were simply too small and too slow, and there were not enough of them (and adding more of them to the fleet would have overcrowded traffic on the river). So it was impossible for people to commute back and forth on a significant scale.
Furthermore, in the winter, the East River sometimes froze, making ferry travel impossible. Since the ice rarely froze solid enough to walk over, traveling over the river was virtually impossible. It was said that it was easier to travel from Albany to Manhattan (Albany is the state capital, in upstate New York) than it was to travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan in the winter.
The Brooklyn Bridge changed all that. It made commuting much easier; it was now possible for large numbers of people to live in Brooklyn, but work in Manhattan. This was impossible before the bridge was built, since the ferry system wasn't equipped to carry large numbers of commuters at once, and because in the winter, ferry service was limited or nonexistent.
It is not a coincidence that the five boroughs -- which at the time were separate counties or cities -- incorporated into one city in 1898, only 5 years after the bridge opened. The Brooklyn Bridge helped bind the boroughs together into one city.
27 people died while building the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn bridge was designed by John Roebling and the Roeblings helped in the process of building the bridge with many other workers.
The Brooklyn Bridge was the first suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire and the first to use pneumatic caissons.
The Brooklyn Bridge is made of steel. The Bessemer process made steel affordable.
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Niagra Falls, the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The brooklyn bridge is not a arch bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a suspension bridge.
To cross the River Thames
How many people died building the London bridge: zero
No. The Brooklyn Bridge is a non-opening bridge.
The Manhattan Bridge. Three bridges connect Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan. In order from south to north, they are the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge.