it is still the longest suspension bridge in the Americas, 11th in the world. The crowning achievement of the structural engineer Othmar Ammann and of New York’s imperious master planner Robert ...

One of many signature landmarks of New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge is also one of the oldest suspension bridges in the country and a National Historic Landmark. Its six lanes (and one ...

After years of ospreys nesting atop the Bear Mountain Bridge overlooking the Hudson, road crews recently built nesting ...

then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York mayor Robert Wagner, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and transportation-and-parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a ...

Ospreys survive by diving for fish in the Hudson River. When the birds nested atop the bridge, large sticks and branches fell ...

The report identified 68 bridges in 19 states, including several in New York, that it says don't have a "current vulnerability assessment." "We are saying there is a safety deficiency here ...

From his New York office, he traded telegrams with ... a practical application of Moisseiff's deflection theory of suspension bridges. They made their bridge design flexible enough to withstand ...

The ‘world’s biggest elephant’ helped to raise awareness about the famous bridge’s safety, while also promoting P.T. Barnum’s circus. Following 13 years of construction, New York’s ...