Brooklyn Bridge by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About "Brooklyn Bridge"

by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About the artwork

Main Street Park is also great for walking, with views of Jane's Caroussel, Brooklyn Bridge, and Lower Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883, is a suspension bridge in New York in the United States. It crosses the East River and connects Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan, just like the Manhattan Bridge. The architects were John Roebling and his son Washington Roebling. Washington's wife, Emily Warren Roebling, took actual charge of dismantling the bridge when her husband, a victim of caisson disease, was no longer able to do so.

The bridge is 1825 meters long, and the largest span is 486 meters. As a result, until the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the bridge had the longest span in the world. In 2008 it was the 64th suspension bridge in the world in terms of span.

During the construction of the bridge, 27 workers died as a result of a fall of the cables and as a result of the caisson disease caused by the work on the pylons below the water level.

The completion of the bridge and its record length gave rise to a new understanding of the urban scale of New York. In the bridge, the contrast between the old materials and the new materials of the new era, the massive supports and the 'fine' cabling that the road surface carries, becomes clear.

On the Brooklyn Bridge there is also a city seal of Dutch origin dating from 1834 on which you can read "Eendraght Maakt Magt" (Eendracht makes power).