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Title: The city of New York
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : J. M. Ruston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-leys behind it long before the sun sets. Ifwe go out to the middle of the river span,we shall have the novel experience of look-ing directly down upon the water craft 135feet below. As seen from here, even thelargest steamboat takes on an appearancecuriously suggestive of a toy boat. The bridge was begun in 1870 and openedto traffic in 1883, having consumed thir-teen years in building, and cost $15,000,o( 0.Subsequent alterations have increased thecost to $21,000,000. It is justly consideredone of the wonders of the world. The Manhattan Bridge spans the EastRiver north of the Brooklyn Bridge. Theriver span is 1,470 feet, each land span is725 feet, the Manhattan approach 2,067feet, Brooklyn approach 1,868 feet—-totallength of roadway 6,855 feet. The towersare ^,22 feet above mean high water mark.The cost was $24,000,000. The Willi.amsburg Bridge, from Wil-liamsburg, Brooklyn, to Grand street, Man-hattan, is the greatest suspension bridgein the world, with a channel span of 1,600 147
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feet, a length of 7,200 feet between ter-minals, a height of 135 feet at the centerand towers 335 feet. The bridge is 118feet wide and carries four trolley and twocable tracks, two roadways and two footwalks. The cost was $12,000,000. The QiEENSBORO Bridge extends acrossthe East River from East Fifty-ninth street,to Ravenswood, in the Borough of Queens.The clear height of the bridge above meanhigh water is 135 feet. The carrying ca-pacity is enormous. There are two floorsthe lower one 86 feet wide between railings,the upper one 67 feet. Its cost was ^20,-000,000. Statue George III. The Equestrian Statue of George IIIshown in this book is reproduced from theoriginal drawing made for The New YorkHistorical Society by the noted militaryartist authority, Mr. Charles M. Leffertsof Plandome, L. I. _ IsTo authentic picture of this famousstatue having come down to this genera-tion, Mr. Lefferts, after a study of severalyears of the original records of the Revolu-tionary period, was able from

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