Two men standing on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn BridgeMuseum of the City of New York/Getty Images The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and ...
On Dec. 3, 1870, construction began on a suspension bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn that was the crowing feat of a brilliant civil engineer from Trenton who died before the first brick was laid.
A new park in Brooklyn, Emily Roebling Plaza, will be dedicated to the woman who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Several generations of the Roebling family were the forces behind ...
Last year, while covering the National Private Truck Council’s annual meeting in Cincinnati, OH, I literally stumbled upon a piece of history spanning the Ohio River: the John A. (for “Augustus”) ...