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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tted to Messrs. Carrere & Hastingsfor architectural treatment. The result, it isbelieved, has been eminently successful. Thework has received the approval of the MunicipalArt Commission. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE NEW BRIDGE. Manhattan Bridge, which will cross the EastRiver at a point a short distance above Brook-lyn Bridge, will complete the extension of Flat-bush Avenue, Brooklyn, joining that highway toCanal Street, Manhattan, at a point near theBowery, and will thus form part of a fine widethoroughfare from the North River to ProspectPark,—and, indeed, to Coney Island,—reallyproviding the first such thoroughfare from theHudson to the ocean. It will have a totallength, including approaches, of 6,500 feet, acentral span 1,470 feet long, and two end spanseach 725 feet long (Brooklyn Bridge is 6.000feet long, with a central span of 1,595 feet ;Williamsburgh Bridge, 7,200 feet long, with acentral span of 1,G00 feet). The new bridgewill be 120 feet wide (the width of the Brook-
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THE SIDE ELEVATION OF THE TOWERS. lyn Bridge is 84 feet), and it will carry a vehicu-lar roadway 34 feet wide, two footwalks, andeight railway tracks,—four for trolley cars, andfour, on a second deck, for elevated trains. Itwill be like the old Brooklyn Bridge in that theshore spans of its cables will be loaded,—that is, they will carry the roadway. This isnot so in the Williamsburgh Bridge, in which 194 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REVIEWS. tlie slightly lessened cost of the structure doesnot compensate for its hidcousness. The steel towers, altliough containing about33 per cent, moie material than the Williams-burgh towers, will be much lighter in generalappearance. This effect will be secured bytreating the central part of the tower as a greatopen arch. Cutting down through this centralarch, it would be possible to take either half ofthe complete bridge away and leave the otherhalf intact, which would still form a perfect andpiacticable bridge in itself. Thus, if it shouldb

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