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Vor 3 Tagen · Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water.
- 1,595.5 ft (486.3 m)
- 6,016 ft (1,833.7 m; 1.1 mi)
- May 24, 1883; 140 years ago
- East River
Vor 5 Tagen · The Rhine [note 2] ( / raɪn / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, and Swiss-German borders.
- 185,000 km² (71,000 sq mi)
- North Sea
- 1,230 km (760 mi)
- Rein Anteriur/Vorderrhein
Vor 5 Tagen · Roosevelt Island, island in the East River, between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, New York City. Administratively part of Manhattan, it is 1.5 miles (about 2.5 km) long and 1/8 mile wide, with an area of 139 acres (56 hectares). In 1637 the Dutch governor Wouter van Twiller bought the island from Native Americans, who called ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor einem Tag · The Mississippi River is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
- United States
- Gulf of Mexico
- 2,340 mi (3,766 km)
- Lake Itasca (traditional)
Vor 4 Tagen · The Top 10 Secrets of the East River, NYC. Untapped New York. 2. The East River Is Only Safe for Secondary Contact. You may be tempted to take a dip in the East River, but its waters...
Vor 4 Tagen · The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Part II: The East River. Benjamin Waldman. Welcome back to Part II of Benjamin Waldman’s walk around the island of Manhattan. Yesterday we explored the...
Vor 4 Tagen · Dating back to when the first Dutch immigrants populated what was then New Amsterdam, these slips actually formed some of the only non-man-made parts of the marshy East River waterfront. In what ...
