LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Brooklyn Bridge: Lower Manhattan
built 204 days ago
THE FINISHING TOUCHES: At the beginning of 1883, with the Brooklyn Bridge nearing completion, two final details had to be worked out before it opened. First, two terminal buildings, complete with ornate ironwork and plate-glass windows, were to be constructed at the Manhattan and Brooklyn ends of the bridge. Second, seventy blue-white, electric arc lamps were to be installed along the promenade at intervals of about one hundred feet. Roebling gave these last details his full attention.
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Pneumatic caissons sunk to a depth of forty-four feet on the Brooklyn side, and seventy-eight feet on the Manhattan side provided dry space for workers to dig footings for the bridge's foundation. Alas, working in the caisson often brought on "the bends" -- a serious medical condition caused by moving too quickly from a high-pressure atmosphere to a low-pressure atmosphere. Washington Roebling was among many workers permanently impaired by the then little understood "caisson disease."
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These photos from 2000 show the towers, main cables, and the intricate network of vertical and diagonal stays on the Brooklyn Bridge. The left photo shows a close-up of the Brooklyn tower. The right photo shows a wide-angle shot of the Manhattan tower and the Lower Manhattan skyline dominated by the World Trade Center.
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The rally is just wrapping up as protestors are preparing to march across the Brooklyn Bridge, headed to Manhattan's City Hall. Since earlier this morning local protestor have been gathering in Borough Hall. At some point, the crowd swelled to about several hundred people.
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The DVD cover for the 1998 film The Siege shows an image of the Brooklyn Bridge being destroyed in a terrorist attack. In the film this attack is not shown, although the bridge is used as an escape from Manhattan during terrorist attacks.
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