click images to enlargeOne of my favorite walks when I lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan was across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Today is the Brooklyn Bridge's 123rd birthday. Crossing the East River between the huge cities of NYC and Brooklyn, it opened on May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction (and 27 deaths).
Within 24 hours, a quarter million people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, using the promenade above the roadway that John Roebling designed specifically for walkers.
The connection between the population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed New York forever, and in 1898, the city of Brooklyn merged with New York, Staten Island, and a few farm towns to create what would become the wonderful and terrible NYC metroplex.
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