The plank promenade above the traffic, the gothic towers, the web of cables, Manhattan ahead and the harbor below, the works hung on the tower piers and the lamp banners.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883. John A. Roebling designed it and died of an injury at the site before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over, and when caisson disease left him bedridden, his wife Emily Roebling carried his instructions to the site for a decade. Its 1,595 foot main span was the longest in the world, and it was the first suspension bridge hung on steel wire.
Source · Encyclopaedia Britannica ↗
The two granite towers with pointed double arches, four main cables and the diagonal stay web, the raised timber walkway between the roadways, the iron lamps, the river far below. Mood: golden hour crossing. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.