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E A S T R I V E R
This page celebrates the Brooklyn Bridge, which opened on May 24, 1883. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge ever built, the longest suspension bridge in the world at its completion, and remains one of the most beautiful works of engineering ever created.
The bridge was designed by John A. Roebling, built under the supervision of his son Washington and Washington's wife Emily, and constructed by hundreds of workers whose names are mostly forgotten but whose labor remains.
The Brooklyn Bridge is a reminder that what seems impossible becomes possible through vision, persistence, and cooperation. It connected two cities across a river. It still does.
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