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May 17, 1952

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THIS ALLURING ROADWAY

Stanley Edgar Hyman

PROFILE of Brooklyn Bridge, which opened May 24, 1883, and took 13 years and 6 months to build, The engineer was John Robeling, who died as a result of an …