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unusual facts about The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge


The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge

The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge was a 1964 book by Gay Talese about the construction of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge.


Clarence Snyder

Snyder's photos featured such memorable events as the completion of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Madison Square Garden, and showed ships carrying iron ore, skyscrapers under construction, and molten steel being poured.

Congestion pricing in New York City

One proposal from Sam Schwartz recommends removing tolls from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to encourage trucks en route from Long Island to New Jersey to use Interstate 278 through Staten Island and over a proposed twin-span Goethals Bridge, as opposed to using the now toll-free route via the Manhattan Bridge, congesting Manhattan's local streets, and out the Lincoln or Holland Tunnels.

Denmark in World War II

The Germans had also been quick to establish control over the bridge across the Little Belt, thus gaining access to the island of Funen.

Huber's equation

Very useful in calculating the span width of the bridges like Golden Gate Bridge or Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, their beam cross-sections, etc.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Eric Steele, whose film The Bridge (2006) documents the suicides of two-dozen people who jumped off the world's most popular suicide site - the Golden Gate Bridge - throughout 2004, has compared images captured in his documentary to those of Bruegel’s Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, because the fatal leaps go almost unnoticed by passersby.

Perth Water

The photo here is of the part of the river that was filled in to accommodate the Narrows Bridge works.

Perth Water is the section of the Swan River between the Causeway to the east, and Narrows Bridge to the west – a large wide but shallow section of river on the southern edge of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia, and the northern edge of the suburb South Perth.

The Joy of Life

The following week (on January 19) the Chronicle broke the news that filmmaker Eric Steel had been shooting suicide leaps from the bridge during the calendar year of 2004 for his film The Bridge, which would be released in 2005.

The Power Broker

In 1966, his wife Ina changed the topic of her graduate thesis to write about the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, while Caro was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University taking courses in urban planning and land use.

Volker Lechtenbrink

Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki.

X-Quisite

She went solo with her debut album The Bridge released in 2009, having collaborated with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. Phoenix and Peter Wade Keusch.


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