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Bridging The Gap

Published Thursday, May 15, 2008

The distance — 5,989 feet across one of the oldest and most impressive suspension bridges ever built in the U.S. — hasn't changed, yet Brooklyn feels closer than ever to Manhattan. The boroughs, separated by the East River and connected by the Brooklyn Bridge, once seemed worlds apart. Wall Street, Broadway, Central Park, all within a New York minute of Brooklyn, seemed a lifetime away. Despite a larger population — with more than 2.5 million people, Brooklyn would be the fourth largest U.S. city — the borough lived in the shadow of Manhattan (1.6 million people). Travelers rarely ...

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