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Brooklyn Bridge
When it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge world, it's longest span being 1,595 feet. Located in New York, the bridge crosses over the East River. Although it no longer holds the record as longest, it is still well known world wide.
249 Questions
Determine if Brooklyn Bridge is a common or proper noun?
Brooklyn Bridge is a proper noun. Proper nouns are the unique names of people, places, or things. Common nouns are the words for general things. If a common noun is part of a name, it becomes a proper noun. Pronouns always replace proper and common nouns.
Why doesn't the Brooklyn Bridge have a train on it anymore?
No. The subway trains to and from Brooklyn run on their own elevated lines. They do not use the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge is for cars, buses, trucks, and pedestrian traffic only.
There used to be trolleys that ran across the Brooklyn Bridge, but that was only from 1898 to 1950. The old BRT line also ran over the bridge and just barely into Manhattan, to its last stop, but that was around a hundred years ago.
When did construction on the Brooklyn Bridge start and end?
Construction began in early January of 1870 (although some sources say late December of 1869), and it opened on May 24, 1883.
Why did the Brooklyn bridge take longer to build than the george Washington bridge?
cassions were in the way
Where is the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan?
The Manhattan Bridge is in between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. All three of these bridges transverse the East River and connect Brooklyn to the East Side of Lower Manhattan.
On the Manhattan side, the Manhattan Bridge is in Chinatown, and on the Brooklyn side, it's in DUMBO (an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) in between Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, and Vinegar Hill.
What does the Brooklyn bridge represents?
The Brooklyn Bridge has come to be a symbol of New York City.
What are the functions of the Brooklyn bridge?
the function of bridges is to give access to people and moving vehicles to places which beforehand were not avalible to access in the first place. eg to cross a river and get to the other side.
What was the purpose of building the Brooklyn bridge?
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.
How much is a cab from Central Park to Brooklyn bridge?
Like, twenty to twenty-five dollars, not including tip and extra fees (like the $1 surcharge on weekdays from 4 PM to 8 PM, and the 50-cent surcharge from 8 PM to 6 AM every day, and the 50-cent New York State tax).
Which bridge is longer the golden gate the George Washington or the Brooklyn bridge?
The Brooklyn Bridge is 5,989 feet long. The George Washington Bridge is 4,760 feet long.
What structure was the Brooklyn bridge made out of?
the Brooklyn bridge was made of a suspension Bridge.
Is the Brooklyn Bridge the longest bridge in the world?
No.
Arguably the longest bridge is the Bang Na Expressway, in Bangkok, Thailand. It is 33.5 miles long (54 km), but is not considered a bridge because it does not cross a single body of water, instead crossing a river and canals.
The longest bridge running over a single body of water in the world is now the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China. 42km in length, it links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the island of Huangdao. The bridge cost over $1.4 billion to build and was completed in mid-2011.
What made the Brooklyn Bridge the symbol of American accomplishments?
Because the bridge was free of corruption, exploitation, and unfair business practices most often with the glided age
How do you get to the Brooklyn Bridge from the Jamaica Station in Queens?
The Jamaica station on the LIRR is connected to the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue station on the New York City subway system.
Transfer to the subway, and take the Downtown J-Z (the brown line) from Sutphin Blvd-Archer Ave to Chambers Street in Manhattan. This station is connected to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station on the 4-5-6 (the dark green line). The Chambers Street/Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station is located at City Hall Park, at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.
How many miles is it to walk the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn?
Much of your question depends on whether you're driving or walking, where you start on the Brooklyn Bridge and where you end up in Central Park.
If I walked from the Manhattan side of the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge to the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street, I'd walk about six miles.
