What to see in New York . thosesailing less frequently to many foreign ports. Some of the German ships dock at Hoboken, NewJersey, across the Hudson River from New York,but there is a continuous line of docks in New Yorkextending down the Hudson, up the East River, andon the Brooklyn shore. BRIDGES AND TUNNELS. Work on the Brooklyn Bridge, the original giantin suspension bridges, was commenced on January3, 1870, and completed May 24, 1883. Width, 85feet; total length, 6,537 feet; cost, $10,000,000. The construction of the Williamsburg Bridge wasbegun October 28, 1896, and completed December 1,
What to see in New York . thosesailing less frequently to many foreign ports. Some of the German ships dock at Hoboken, NewJersey, across the Hudson River from New York,but there is a continuous line of docks in New Yorkextending down the Hudson, up the East River, andon the Brooklyn shore. BRIDGES AND TUNNELS. Work on the Brooklyn Bridge, the original giantin suspension bridges, was commenced on January3, 1870, and completed May 24, 1883. Width, 85feet; total length, 6,537 feet; cost, $10,000,000. The construction of the Williamsburg Bridge wasbegun October 28, 1896, and completed December 1,1903. Length, 7,200 feet; width, 118 feet. The Queensboro Bridge is a cantilever , $12,548,500; length, 8,601 feet. The Manhattan Bridge is the greatest suspensionbridge in the world. Length, 6,855 feet; width, 120 feet. The Hudson River Tunnel System operates doubletunnel tubes from Sixth Avenue and Thirty-thirdStreet and Church Street and under the Hudson Riverto Hoboken and Jersey City. Length, three Showing the steel-ring construction, cement covered, of the under-river tunnels 37
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