On opening day more than 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people used the bridge to cross between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Now more than 120,000 cars, 30,000 pedestrians and 4,000 cyclists make the ...

The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883, has a nearly 1,600-foot main span supported by two masonry towers. More than 100,000 vehicles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians cross every day ...