What year did the Brooklyn Bridge fall?

On May 30, 1883 — one week after it officially opened — 12 people were killed in a horrifying trample caused by the collapse of the Brooklyn Bridge. Except of course, the Bridge didn't actually collapse.



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Because of the elevation of the span above the East River and the relatively low-lying shores, the rest of the bridge, sloping down to ground level, extends quite far inland on both sides of the river. Between 1944 and 1954, a comprehensive reconstruction took place.

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They did go on the Brooklyn Bridge for many years, chiefly in the first decades of the last century. Trains from the Fulton, Fifth Avenue, Lexington Avenue and Myrtle Avenue Elevated lines went across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Park Row terminal near City Hall.

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