Constructing the Brooklyn Bridge didn’t just claim the lives of up to 30 laborers. John and Washington Roebling, the father and son engineers in charge of building the bridge, were also casualties. John Roebling, right, lost his life early on. Named ch... »
The vantage point in a “View From Brooklyn,” painted by George Copeland Ault in 1927, looks like Brooklyn Heights or Red Hook. Or is it farther up the East River, from Williamsburg or Greenpoint? “A precisionist and surrealist painter, especially noted... »
When the Williamsburg Bridge opened on December 19, 1903, Scientific American (by way of nycroads.com) had this to say about a structure critics conceded wasn’t nearly as breathtaking as its neighbor, the Brooklyn Bridge: “Considered from the aesthetic... »
