and shore. of the tower will be heavily sway-braced, and at the As originally planned, the structure was to consist The height is 95 feet above the old level of the river. The thickness is but 36 feet at the base of the founda- of a cantilever bridge of five spans on four piers, one top of the… … an architectural point of view with the general con- possible to make the dam of such slight thickness ow- on the shores of Blackwell’s Island, and the fourth ing to the curved form that was given it in the plan struction of the whole bridge. pier on the Long Island shore. Ground was broken…
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