NEW YORK — Thursday marks exactly 60 years since the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened to much fanfare ... Despite part of it being built, it now sits abandoned somewhere under Owl's Head ...
Vendors who were clogging the footpath over the Brooklyn Bridge were banned a year ago. But Our Town Downtown found the unlicensed street vendors were slowly coming back. At his final press ...
When the north end extension was built, it was a major construction project with new side walls and roof, and track relocations. Brooklyn Bridge station was renovated in a project completed in 1996.
In unexpected and wonderful ways, the Brooklyn Bridge captured the imagination of ... the dramatic story of the larger-than-life men who imagined and built it, and the immense charm this granite ...
New York City’s L train carries about 400,000 passengers a day, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn ... pontoon bridge, however, simply floats on the water, with the weight of the bridge being ...
that his biography would be quite gripping enough if he had not had anything at all to do with the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He was the eldest of nine children of a tyrannical German father, ...
This monument, located on the northern part of Cadman Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge approach, honors William Jay Gaynor (1851–1913), journalist, lawyer, state supreme court justice, Brooklyn resident ...