Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn Bridge’
Brooklyn Bridge
Posted by Ryan Schaffer in My photos Friday, 15 January 2010 16:16 6 Comments
The Manhattan tower shown in the foreground continues to descend another 78 below the high-water mark. It was sunk by means of a pneumatic caisson. It was by far the hardest part of the work and took a lasting toll on the Chief Engineer Washington Roebling who never fully recovered from decompression sickness. The goal to reach bedrock was never achieved and to this day the tower rests on ancient sediments.
Brooklyn Bridge promenade
Posted by Ryan Schaffer in My photos Friday, 15 January 2010 16:02 2 Comments
Earlier in the month I had finished reading David McCullough’s book “The Great Bridge”. Its strange how we take some things for granted, or more, we just don’t think about where they came from. The Brooklyn Bridge has always existed in my mind until I read about how it was built and the people who built it. It was my first visit to it in a long time and my first time on the promenade. While atop I tried to imagine the Manhattan panorama as it would have been in 1883.