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Brooklyn Bridge granite tower and steel-wire suspension cables

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Photo was taken from the walkway on the bridge looking up at one of its towers at night. The tower is centered, with the granite and steel-wire suspension cables in yellows and browns, the sky is deep blue/purple with some clouds. Per https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/issues/magazine-issue/article/2022/07/new-yorks-brooklyn-bridge-is-an-engineering-marvel, “Its two towers, comprised of limestone below water (which could absorb its volume in water) and granite above water (which could resist weathering), would rise 268 ft in the air According to a 1985 Historic American Engineering Record/National Park Service schematic (HAER NY-18, sheet 1) on the bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge resembled nothing so much as a Gothic cathedral, owing to: “the resemblance to leaded window tracery produced by the intersecting cables, the appearance of a tapering spire created by the inclines coursed of beveled stones, the impression of a double doorway given by the high lancet arches over the roadway, (and) the effect of a church facade made by the projecting front buttresses.” American Society of Civil Engineers
December 14, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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#FYI when comparing #LosAngeles to #NewYorkCity=comprised of #five-#counties, one for each borough: #BronxCounty (The Bronx), #KingsCounty (Brooklyn), #NewYorkCounty (Manhattan), #QueensCounty (Queens), and #RichmondCounty (Staten Island). Each borough is #coextensive with its corresponding county.
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