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Brooklyn Bridge and World Trade Center

author: WallyG : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Brooklyn Bridge and World Trade Center

author: WallyG : Brooklyn, NY

In 2007, The World Trade Center was ranked #19 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list. The Brooklyn Bridge was ranked #20. The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) stretches 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River (main span of 1,595 feet 6 inches) connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn. On completion, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world--fifty percent longer than any previously built, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. For several years, the towers were also the tallest structures in the Western Hemipshere. Designed by an engineering firm owned by John Augustus Roebling, the bridge...