PROGRESSIVE NEW YORK
NEW YORKi-, January 4
The Manhattan bridge, which is the fourth bridge over the East River connecting New York and the Brooklyn side of the oity, erected at a cost of £5,200,000, has been opened.
The plans of the Manhattan suspension bridge, which has been built across the East River, between Brooklyn and Manhattan Island, were issued on April 10, 1906. The length of the bridge from anchorage to anchorage, and excluding the approaches, is 2920 ft, the central span being 1470 ft. The width of the bridge from rail to rail is 120 ft. The central roadway is 40ft wide, and on each side are railway tracks and a 12ft pathway. The railway tracks are on two decks, there being eight lines in all, designed for overhead or underground trolly electric traction. The height of the two steel towers is 286 ft above the masonry. The bridge rises 135 ft above mean high water.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 25
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