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Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson

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board their home conveyance. The daily rush has been relieved to some extent sincethe opening of the new Williamsburg Bridge, and will grow still less strenuous when the Manhattan and Blaekwells Island bridges, now in process of erection,are completed. At the right in the view is the entrance to the tall Pulitzer Building, the home of the great newspaper, The New York World. THE BROOKLYN BRIDCK. Stretches from opposite City Hall Park to Fulton and Sand streets. Brooklyn. This magnificent bridge was begun in 1870 andopened to the public in 1883. Cost S21.000,000. It consists of a central river span 1,596 feet long and two land spans, with a total length between terminals of 7,580feet. The bridgeway carries two cable and two trolley car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath. 4.000 cars and 2,000 vehicles pass east and west every day. Theawrage number of passengers in twenty-four hours is 30(1.00(1. It is estimated that about .I.OOO.OOO.OOO people have used this bridge since its opening.
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THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE, the greatest suspension bridge in the world, crosses the East River at the Grand Street Ferry to Broadway (Williamsburg)Brooklyn. It is a steel-towered suspension-cantilever structure with a length of 7,JOO between terminals. The towers are 335 feet high. The central span is1.600 feet iong and 186 feet above the middle of the rivei. The bridgeway is Us feet wide, and carries four trolley and two cable tracks, two roadways, two footpaths, and two bicycle paths. Estimated cost, about $21,000,(100.

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