Description
Young readers will connect with the story of this National Historic Landmark–the Brooklyn Bridge!
Building the Brooklyn Bridge used to be no simple feat. Regardless of a brilliant plan from a father-son team of engineers, the process used to be a dangerous and grueling one. Construction workers developed a mysterious illness (now referred to as the bends), several died, and the project had devastating effects on the engineers’ lives. Still, after fourteen years, the Brooklyn Bridge used to be finished and became the longest suspension bridge on this planet on the time and continues to be widely admired nowadays. Megan Stine tells the fascinating story in the back of some of the city’s best-loved landmarks. Includes black-and-white illustrations and a foldout color map!