The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. It is 5,989 feet long over the East River connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan. Completed in 1883, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, the first steel-wire suspension bridge and the first bridge to connect to Manhattan. The Brooklyn was referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge but then later on it was changed to simply the Brooklyn Bridge.
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