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  1. Aug 19, 2017 · The Brooklyn Bridge's Builders Fought Fire, Flood, and Death. EXCERPT. Washington Roebling was still a young engineer when his father, John, died tragically, leaving the completion of the...

  2. Apr 20, 2008 · A combination of civil unrest, budget crisis, and deteriorating living conditions lead to an unprecedented - and unrepeated - amount of fire calls, especially in the Bronx and Brooklyn where entire city blocks burned down and All-Hands fires would be handled for by an engine and a tower ladder.

  3. Jan 20, 2022 · My generation defines itself differently: We are the internally displaced children of the Bronx, uprooted every few years because of fires, decrepit apartments and absent landlords. Our...

  4. Aug 17, 2023 · But to get to New England, they needed a bridge. to span across to Queens and the Bronx. And so they built the Hell Gate Bridge, so it essentially connected Long Island. to the mainland in the...

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  5. The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River.

  6. Nov 5, 2021 · A hybrid cable-stayed and suspension bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge connects the Financial District in Manhattan and northeastern Brooklyn, spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge ever constructed and now hosts daily roughly 105,679 cars per day.

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  8. May 9, 2022 · It’s been four months since a devastating and deadly fire ripped through a high rise in the Bronx. Now, members of the community are coming together in hopes of preventing future tragedies.