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The Brooklyn Bridge - From City to Metropolis
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Track Listing
- Meet me on the Bridge (Introduction)
- City Hall (Starting Point)
- Ramp
- Looking South
- Rooftops
- Cityscape
- Miles of Wire
- New York Tower
- The Big Scandal
- Changing Times
- Center Span
- Jumpers
- Brooklyn Tower
- From City to Metropolis
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1316516 in Music
- Released on: 2004-09-15
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Album Description
An Entertaining and informative audio guide for New Yorkers and tourists alike.
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with novelist Elizabeth Gaffney as she recounts the exciting story of the bridge. Opened in 1883, it was for a time the longest suspension bridge in the world. To build it required the invention of new technologies, the risk of injury and death, and most of all courage and drive. Learn about the ingenious wire-spinning machines that formed the cables; the dark underwater world of the caissons; the scandals, from industrial espionage to jumpers; the Roebling family, and discover how the bridge changed New York.
An Audio Guide for the Cultured Traveler.
CD Running Time: Approx 45 Min.
About the Artist
Elizabeth Gaffney a Brooklyn native and advisry editor of the Paris Review is the author of Metropolis (Random House, 2005).
CityReads Audio Guides explore ever-changing urban spaces, searching out the remnants of the past, memories, and behind-the-scenes knowledge that underlies the sights and sounds of the city today.
