According to History.com, it was the years of May 1883 when the construction completed on the Brooklyn Bridge that linked the two boroughs of New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn, which was unprecedented at the time. It took 14 years to complete, and over 600 people were employed 24 of who met the demised during the establishment including the original engineer John Roebling, his son took over the project he too was injury that’s when the wife of the late engineer John Roebling, Emily Roebling intervene with her background in mathematics start the supervising of the bridge. It generated 15 million dollars. It’s been over 125 years ago and this iconic monument hanging over the East River where thousands of people have the accessibility to ventured daily, it is now a tourist attraction. The manpower that was crafted in the creation of the bridge is unbeknownst to many there were underwater divers that were assigned with the responsibility to excavated into the East River and input tons of steels for cables wires and the suspensions embracing each other.

    The reason for this construction was because employment was in the neighboring borough of Manhattan and individuals were living in Brooklyn, they travelled on the East River to work, there was a major snow storm in the 1860 and the East River was frozen and hundreds of people were unable to journey to work, therefore, John Roebling articulated fabricating the Brooklyn Bridge.

     On the opening of the bridge the President at the time Chester A. Arthur and New York City Mayor Franklin Edson held a ceremony where they were gunfire from ship sailing on the East River and fireworks everyone was elated on the success and commuting would be less time for them and more secure.   

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