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Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge, a NYC suspension bridge, crosses the East
River between the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the
Williamsburg neighborhood of
Brooklyn.
Construction on the bridge, the second to cross this river, began in 1896,
with Leffert L. Buck as chief engineer, Henry Hornbostel as architect and
Holton D. Robinson as assistant engineer, and the bridge opened on
December 19, 1903
at a cost of $12,000,000. This bridge and the Manhattan Bridge are
the only suspension bridges in New York City that still carry both
automobile and rail traffic. |