Bridge Info

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Weather

Cost

A lot of people seem to be searching for this information, so here it is: Passage over the Brooklyn Bridge, whether on the pedestrian deck or by car, is free.

Links

For active Brooklyn Bridge users

Fiboro Bridges
Tips for users, construction updates, and more. Outdated but promising. From Transportation Alternatives.
New York State Department of Transportation

History and background

Brooklyn Bridge
At Wikipedia, in case you couldn't find that yourself.
Brooklyn Expedition: Brooklyn Bridge
An excellent site intended for youngsters but recommended for all bridge fans. Includes text and unusual pictures, as well as some cool interactive rollover images--for example, one shows how the configuration of the roadway has been changed over the years.
Structurae: International Gallery and Database of Structures
Basic facts, photos, links, and a bibliography.
Brooklyn Bridge Website
Pictures, links, and history--including a page on fatalities.
Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
From the Library of Congress American Memory exhibit, a little bit of text and a bunch of cool photos.
Great Buildings Online: Brooklyn Bridge
"Gateway to a Century" by Drew Fetherston
From Long Island: Our Story.
Building Big Wonders of the World Databank: Brooklyn Bridge
With images comparing the Brooklyn Bridge with the Golden Gate and the Akashi Kaikyo.
Steve Anderson's The Crossings of Metro New York
Elegant and informative.
Daniel's Manhattan Architecture (two sections that don't seem to be linked to each other)
- Info page
  A couple of facts, a couple of pictures.
- Photo walking tour
  With commentary.
Invention Factory: The Roebling Story
Info about the bridge's architect.

Pictures

The Brooklyn Bridge: An Online Photo Exhibit
At Newsday.com.
Hughes500's Brooklyn Bridge Timelapse set
A lovely slideshow at Flickr. View is from the Manhattan side.
Brooklyn Bridge at Flickr
More than three thousand photos tagged with "brooklynbridge."
Dave Frieder's Bridge Project
Photos of seemingly all of New York's bridges: "As of this year, I have been working on this 'Bridge Project' for 11 YEARS. My work has been hampered with the events of 911 but I believe persistence will prevail. On March 30th [of 2004, presumably], I will be giving a slide show and lecture at the 'Tuesday Evening Hour' at 49 Fulton Street, New York City, Suite 8-J at 6:30 PM. For more information please call 212-385-3650." All prints are available for purchase.
romDog
Stills from and history of his defunct Brooklyn Bridge live cam, plus lots of WTC photos
Afterimage Gallery
From a 1999 exhibit (in Dallas, Texas!), "photographs ranging from a beautiful anonymous print made in 1890 to images by several contemporary photographers."
Quicktime: Night panorama
By Jim Galvin.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls Timeline
One dramatic engraving, courtesy of Stanford University. "In this May 16, 1881 issue of the New York Weekly, Vieve Van Buren, a poor New York girl, jumps to her death from one of towers of the Brooklyn Bridge (shown here under construction) after she is caught pawning a stolen watch."
Crossings: Brooklyn Bridge
A hodgepodge of (small) pictures from sources professional and non-, collected by David Neal Miller.
Photo tour
Hideously ugly site.
A Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Photo tour at Laura's NYC Tales.
Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
From the Library of Congress American Memory exhibit, a little bit of text and a bunch of cool photos (also available big: keep clicking through on the panorama and you'll get to a 5MB TIFF).
America's Library: Brooklyn Bridge
Three nice pictures and a little information.
Dan Heller Photography: Brooklyn Bridge
19 photos, available for purchase.
Photovault: Brooklyn Bridge
A couple dozen samples from their commercial picture files; the photos are available for licensing.

BBRUG: Brooklyn Bridge User Group