(Images from: King's Views of New York)
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Municipal Ferry Terminal - East River from Whitehall to near Broad St.; 700 ft. long; main cornice 64 ft. above mean tide, turrets, 100 ft. high; $3,000,000 steel, copper and glass structure, with seven slips for the boats plying to Staten Island and on three Brooklyn lines; waiting rooms, each 150 by 65 ft.; concourse, 30 ft. wide and exterior loggia, 15 ft. along South St.; offices of Dock Department, 700 by 70 ft., above waiting rooms; glass covered playground on roof; Walker & Morris, Architects. Hamilton and Atlantic Avenue Slips yet to be rebuilt.
(See LARGE) Photo: Moses King - 1905
Manhattan Bridge - Wire cable, double deck suspension bridge, greatest traffic capacity of any in world, part of thoroughfare constructed 1901-'9 from Bowery at Canal Street to extension of Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn; swung from two steel towers, 336 feet high, resting on masonry pedestals which are 32 feet above and 92 feet below water line; the four cables weigh 6,300 tons and are made of 37,888 wires; length of bridge, 6,855 ft.; width, 120 ft,; 4 trolley tracks; 4 "L" tracks; 35-ft. roadway, two 11-ft. promenades; cost, $13,400,000; land, $6,300,000.
(See LARGE) Photo: Irving Underhill - Date N/A
Brooklyn Bridge - over East River from City Hall, Manhattan, to Sands St., Brooklyn; epoch-making achievment in bridge construction, begun Jan. 3, 1870, opened May 24, 1883; original cost $10,000,000; operating expenses and repairs to 1914, $23,649,256; suspended on four cables, each of 5,296 wires, each 3,578 ft. long; permanent load, 14,680 tons; length of river span, 1,595 ft., total length 6,537 ft.; width, 85 ft.; crossed in 1913 by 1,399,785 trolley cars and 1,383,842 "L" cars; daily by 275,000 people and 3,000 vehicles.
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Queensboro Bridge - over East River and Blackwell's Island, East 59th St. and 2d Ave., Manhattan to Jane and Academy Sts., Long Island City; greatest cantilever structure costing with approaches $25,000,000; rests on six masonry piers; 7,636 ft. long; west span, 1,182 ft.; clear height over channels, 135 ft.; height of island towers, 324 ft.; width 86 ft.; two decks with 53 ft. roadway, four trolley and two railroad tracks and two promenades; begun 1901, opened March 30, 1909; affording direct route to Queens Borough, which has 130.8 sq. mi. and 387,444 population.
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Williamsburg Bridge - crossing East River from Delancey and Clinton sts., Manhattan, to Broadway, Brooklyn; combined cantilever and suspension bridge, opened Dec. 19, 1903; approach extended 1904 to the Bowery by demolishing ten half-blocks of tenements. Length, 7,200 ft.; river span, 1,600 ft.; width, 118 ft.; two roadways, two "L" tracks, four trolley tracks; two promenades; cost, $10,000,000; 41,634 tons of steel; crossed daily by 475,000 people; through trolley cars between Manhattan shopping district and Brooklyn; Brooklyn "L" thro' Center St. subway loop.
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Harlem River from Fort George - with the Bronx on the left, Washington Heights on the right. Washington Bridge, in foreground, at 181st St., beautiful steel and granite structure, 2,384 ft. long, 80 ft. wide. High Bridge, at 175th St., 1,460 ft. long, carries old Croton Aquaduct over river at height of 116 ft. to pumping station and high-service reservoir; aquaduct completed 1842; capacity 90,000,000 gallons a day. Second aquaduct, completed 1890, carries 290,000,000 gallons a day under Harlem at 135th st. At 158th St. is Putnam R.R. drawbridge.
...to be continued.
