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	Williamsburg, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The area originally called Williamsburg is today referred to as "South Williamsburg" and occupied mainly by the Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hassidim, who continue to wear the traditional dress of their ancestors of Eastern and Central Europe and adhere closely to Jewish religious law.
		The hipster center of Williamsburg radiates from the strip of Bedford Avenue near the Bedford Avenue Station on the L train, the first stop from Manhattan.
		Rents in Williamsburg range from approximately $1000 for a studio apartment, $1,300-1,600 for a one-bedroom, and $1,500 -1,900 for a two-bedroom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamsburg,_Brooklyn (2145 words)

	NYCDOT - Bridges Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many bridges not under DOT Jurisdiction are the responsibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
		Swing Bridges are supported on a center pier in the middle of a waterway and are opened by rotating horizontally on wheels riding on a circular track.
		Vertical Lift Bridges are movable bridges having roadways which may be raised in a manner similar to a building elevator by supporting end cables attached to rotating drums in towers on the sides of the stream.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/motorist/bridges.html (1169 words)

	New York Architecture Images-Williamsburg Bridge
		Built to alleviate traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and to provide a link between Manhattan and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the 1,600 foot Williamsburg Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge until the 1920s.
		One bridge was proposed between the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
		The Williamsburg Bridge was seen as a passageway to a new life by thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing the slums of the Lower East Side.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /BRI/BRI003-WilliamsburgBridge.htm (3820 words)

	Williamsburg Bridge
		The bridge was to have eight vehicular lanes on its upper deck and three subway tracks on the lower deck, and a single timber deck above the roadway was to carry pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
		Although the new Williamsburg Bridge was to be built 48 feet south of the existing bridge, it was to be executed in a way that total traffic disruption during the estimated four-year construction period was to be only 80 hours.
		This bridge would be built in two sections on either side of the old bridge, and when the old bridge is demolished, the two sections would slide together on a giant Teflon plate.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/williamsburg (3227 words)

	Queensboro Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Serious proposals for a bridge linking Manhattan to Long Island City were first made as early as 1838 and attempts to finance such a bridge were made by a private company beginning in 1867.
		Construction soon began but it would take until 1909 for the bridge to be completed due to delays from the collapse of an incomplete span during a windstorm and from labor unrest (including an attempt to dynamite one span).
		The bridge opened to the public on March 30, 1909, having cost about $18 million and 50 lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensboro_Bridge (637 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Williamsburg Bridge
		The Williamsburg may never claim the cachet of its nearby neighbor, the Brooklyn Bridge, which is known by its distinctive granite towers and mentioned in poetry and song.
		It is the Williamsburg Bridge that opened Brooklyn to the proletarian Jewish and Italian immigrants who had been crowded into the ghettoes of the Lower East Side, shaping the Brooklyn whose earthy charm endures today.
		As they took in the bridge's cobweb of girders, the tar roofs and water towers of Williamsburg and Manhattan's skyscrapers, she talked to them "about how Manhattan was an island and that we came from an island," he recalled.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3069 (3115 words)

	Williamsburg, Brooklyn
		Williamsburg, the area extending fanwise from the Williamsburg Bridge to Flushing and Bushwick Avenues, has a large polyglot population.
		Williamsburg in the middle nineteenth century was a popular resort; its hotels near the Brooklyn Ferry attracted a wealthy, cosmopolitan crowd, including such gourmets and sportsmen as Commodore Vanderbilt, Jim Fisk, and William C. Whitney.
		With the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903 and the resultant influx of immigrant families from overcrowded Manhattan, the district's affluence vanished.
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/williamsburg.html (992 words)

	Manhattan Bridge
		The bridge was planned in conjunction with another one of his proposals, the Williamsburg Bridge.
		Like the Williamsburg Bridge, the proposed bridge was to have massive steel towers and deep stiffening trusses (at 55 feet, they were to be even deeper than the 40-foot truss of the Williamsburg Bridge).
		Work on the bridge was to be carried out under three separate contracts, the first two for stiffening the side and main spans, followed by a third one for the installation of prefabricated panels on the lower roadway.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/manhattan (2593 words)

	New York Like a Native - Williamsburg tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Williamsburg may be the most interesting neighborhood in the city.
		After the building of the Williamsburg Bridge in the early 20th century, Williamsburg became an extension of the Lower East Side ghetto, a densely populated tenement area.
		Now Williamsburg is one of the hottest neighborhoods in New York, though not without ongoing struggles about environmental safety, gentrification, and public housing and other amenities.
	www.nylikeanative.com /generic14.html (869 words)

	The Williamsburg Bridge
		Thus consideration of the Williamsburg Bridge can be limited to two basic themes: the questions of aesthetics which arose as a result of the design of the bridge and the continuing changes brought on by immigration and urban growth.
		The design for the Williamsburg bridge therefore can be seen as one in which the use of material in a new way and the tremendous load requirements of a growing city led to a bridge which is simply functional - nothing more.
		Viewed initially by the German and Irish residents of Williamsburg as bringing the economic benefits of easy access to Manhattan, the bridge was ultimately more important as an outlet for the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in the overcrowded slums of the Lower East Side.
	www.sailthehudson.com /WilliamsburgBridge.htm (976 words)

	The Williamsburg Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Williamsburg Bridge is a steel suspension bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River in New York.
		Frederick Uhlmann obtained the charter for the Williamsburg Bridge in 1892.
		In April 1988, the bridge was shut to all vehicular and train traffic due to corrosion in the cables, beams, and steel supports.
	www.ce.udel.edu /~casey/database/article11.html (369 words)

	Happy Birthday, Willy B!
		Bridge workers, engineers, Williamsburg residents, and artists were interviewed as part of the Williamsburg Bridge 100 project.
		The Williamsburg Bridge was built in less time than it is taking to restore it, but residents of the community for which it is named wouldn’t have had it any other way.
		The Williamsburg Bridge connects these people to their past, present, and future, especially because it serves as a source of romance and memory.
	www.nyfolklore.org /pubs/voic29-3-4/willyb.html (2078 words)

	Abandoned Stations : Williamsburg Bridge Railway terminal
		The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge designed by Leffert Lefferts Buck in 1897 for the New East River Bridge Commission, a body jointly constituted by the City of New York and the City of Brooklyn.
		The bridge was opened on 13 December 1903, and bridge local streetcar service began on 10 October 1904, followed on 3 November by through service from Brooklyn trolley lines.
		BMT trolleys continued to run on the bridge until 1948, when the streetcar track on the bridge and the underground terminal were abandoned.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/abandoned/willb.html (1486 words)

	EverythingNY: Williamsburg Bridge 100-Year Anniversary
		As we walked to the middle of the bridge a representative from the office of Manhattan Borough President C.
		She then presented the flag (left) which was first flown over the bridge in 1903 to a representative from Manhattan.
		We do have some more bridge pictures from earlier this Spring and a link for those of you who are totally batshit insane and would like to climb the bridge and plant your own flag on top.
	www.everythingny.com /archives/000375.html (386 words)

	NYCDOT - Williamsburg Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1997, the South Outer Roadways were reconstructed and reopened nine months ahead of schedule and in 1999, early completion of the BMT Transit Structure allowed subway service across the bridge to be restored one month ahead of schedule.
		The Williamsburg Bridge has served NYC for almost 100 years, but in 1988, age, weather, traffic volume increases and deferred maintenance finally caught up with the Bridge and it had to be temporarily closed.
		The Williamsburg Bridge Reconstruction Project is one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by the New York City Department of Transportation-Division of Bridges.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/motorist/willb.html (1088 words)

	Fiboro Bridges - Williamsburg Bridge
		I happened to be riding across the Williamsburg Bridge bikepath this night and noticed that at the midpoint of the bridge, the temporary fence separating the interim bike path from the brand new one under construction was open for once.
		In addition, traffic cops stationed at the bridge entrance during morning and evening rush hours disregard the presence of pedestrians and cyclists and wave cars through red lights, often forcing those waiting to cross Delancey street to wait through three or four cycles or red-green lights before allowing them to cross.
		The Brooklyn entrance to the temporary southern Williamsburg path is a steep ramp with a narrow passage.
	www.transalt.org /bridges/williamsburg.html (1469 words)

	00694395
		The film was shot on the roadway of the newly constructed Williamsburg Bridge.
		The Williamsburg Bridge, a combined cantilever and suspension bridge, crosses the East River from Delancey and Clinton Streets, Manhattan, to Roebling and S. 5th Streets, Williamsburg.
		It was the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2b06704 (270 words)

	wnbc.com - Traffic - Security Scare Closes Williamsburg Bridge For 2 1/2 Hours
		The drunken antic shut the bridge for more than two hours, snarling traffic and spawning unsubstantiated -- and inaccurate -- reports that the men had left suspicious packages on the bridge before rappelling off it.
		It's also true you shouldn't be going on the Williamsburg Bridge, breaking into some place you shouldn't be, and drinking.
		The bridge, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, was closed in both directions after 8 a.m., backing up traffic on both sides.
	www.wnbc.com /traffic/2070740/detail.html (302 words)

	New Yorkers Celebrated the Opening of the Williamsburg Bridge
		The Williamsburg Bridge connects Manhattan to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn
		The 1,600-foot Williamsburg Bridge connects Manhattan to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
		Until the 1920s, the Williamsburg was the world's longest suspension bridge.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /jb/progress/jb_progress_wilbridge_2.html (120 words)

	Many projects aid Williamsburg Bridge rehab
		However, to avoid the stringer cracking pattern noticed during the inspections of the original structure, the new stringers are aligned closer to the rails.
		Although major improvements to the existing bridge were made throughout the design, the substandard width of the roadways and substandard clearances between train tracks could not be altered at the tower locations, where the roadway passes through the existing tower legs.
		The horizontal train clearances between the two sets of rails and between the rails and roadway traffic on the bridge are therefore tighter than normally designed for new NYCT construction and required innovative solutions to overcome the existing substandard structural clearances.
	www.betterroads.com /articles/brmay01b.htm (1163 words)

	RPI: Historical Vignettes: Buck’s Williamsburg Bridge Turns 100
		He finished with a bridge that was 4.5 feet longer than the Brooklyn Bridge and the longest in the world at that time.
		The Williamsburg Bridge opened on Dec. 19, 1903, to horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, pedestrians, and an influx of Jewish and Italian settlers from the crowded Lower East Side of Manhattan.
		The Williamsburg began to suffer from neglect in the 1970s and 1980s and city officials considered tearing it down and building a new bridge.
	www.rpi.edu /news/archives/17.html (521 words)

	Smooth riding on Williamsburg Bridge is the joint
		After two-and-a-half years of complaints about the bumpy old joint plates on the Williamsburg Bridge walkway, the city’s Department of Transportation is replacing the joint plates with new, smoother models.
		Users and community groups praised the path for being wider, smoother and easily accessible, but complained that a series of 26 expansion joints on the Manhattan side of the pathway were dangerously high.
		Several bicyclists filed suit against the city for their injuries, citing negligence and claiming that the joints were steeper than was prescribed by federal regulations.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_126/smoothridingonwilliamsburg.html (616 words)

	eBay - williamsburg bridge, Postcards Paper, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Williamsburg Bridge New York NY Glitter Postcard 1906
		Williamsburg Bridge New York City NY Vintage Postcard
		Williamsburg Bridge in New York City - postcard 1929
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=williamsburg+bridge&... (300 words)

	Brooklyn Public Library \| Explore a Topic
		The Brooklyn Collection presents a selection of resources on Williamsburg, a part of what was formerly known as Brooklyn's Eastern District.
		There are photos, information on early problems with the bridge, the 1988 rehabilitation, and a list of bridge facts.
		Williamsburg: a Jewish Community in Transition; a study of the factors and patterns of change in the organization and structure of a community in transition
	www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org /explore_topic_detail.jsp?subjectpageid=1026 (1034 words)

	The Bumps of Williamsburg Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She says the review was prompted by complaints from cyclists and concerns that the bumps may mean the path violates the American's with Disabilities Act.
		We're hiring another consultant who has never worked on the bike path or the Williamsburg Bridge in that capacity to look at the issue with a fresh perspective.
		She doesn't know when the study will be completed.--- In the meantime, the city is putting up more signs to warn cyclists crossing the bridge about the upcoming bumps.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/radio/221/2005-04-08/1143.asp (753 words)

	Old Proposal For New Williamsburg Bridge - Wired New York Forum
		In the Spring of 1988, the bridge was closed to all traffic for 2 months while emergency repairs were made.
		I know the Williamsburg is not the most stunning thing crossing the river, but could we please leave those silly pseudo-futuristic looking pieces of crap in Boston where they belong?
		I don't know that, as the GI is pretty tiny, the population there will ever justify a bridge that size.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=40698 (728 words)

	BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Williamsburg Bridge
		Leaving Essex Street we approach the Williamsburg Bridge which has two tracks in the center of the bridge.
		According to city engineers the bridge really three bridges in one: the bridge to Manhattan, the transit structure, and the bridge to Brooklyn.
		Between May 1, 1999 and September 5, 1999, the bridge was closed to subway trains while the transit structure was demolished and totally rebuilt.
	www.nycsubway.org /perl/stations?192:3036 (159 words)

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