Celebration! With explosive joy the city expresses its pride in the grand new structure-or rather the cities, for New York (Manhattan) and Brooklyn are still proudly separate cities, joined only in their mutual rivalry and sometime disdain-and now, May 24, 1883, by the Bridge. The buildings of the Brooklyn waterfront in the right front foreground still stand, including Phil Rando's Har-
bor View Restaurant in the comer building, at that time a hotel; the giant ferry buildings are no more, but the borough is now more open to the river here, and the National Society maintains the Fulton Ferry Landing Museum to safeguard that openness on this site, and the public experience of a unique comer of the 20th century city. Engraving from Harper's Weekly, June 2, 1883.
The Brooklyn Bridge is 100! Born Into a Century of Tumult and Change, It Has Presided Over New York's Most Historic Waterway with a Message of More than Survival-a Message of Serenity, and Challenge ,.- .
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Out of New York's narrow streets, the Bridge led straight into the morning sky and toward freedom for those in city pent. From the city's dense diversity it forged a clean simplicity, and from its confusions, a sweeping purpose-a suitable monument for a seafarer's city, the New World's leading seaport! Engraving , Harper's Weekly, May 26, 1883. SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1983
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