Amdur

Griffin Amdur


 * 1) The name of the bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge.
 * 2) The bridge is built in NY city and it was finish being built May 24, 1883.
 * 3) The purpose of the Brooklyn bridge is to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn and make it easier for workers to commute the bridge spans over a bridge.
 * 4) The bridge was needed to make it easier for workers to commute from Manhattan and Brooklyn.
 * 5) The Brooklyn bridge is a suspension bridge.
 * 6) The Brooklyn bridge cost 15.5 million dollars in 1883 which was a ton of money.
 * 7) This bridge is a suspension bridge so it used mostly cables.
 * 8) A challenge that the engineers faced was getting people down to the bottom of the bridge to make it. They over came this by using compresion air.
 * 9) The bridge took around 13 years to build.
 * 10) The width of the bridge is 85 feet. The longest length of the bridge is 1595 feet.
 * 11) A fact about the Brooklyn bridge was that 27 people died during the construction of the bridge.

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