In the midst of corruption sits a Great Bridge towering over the landscape as millions of people commute over it, clueless of how deep the crime beneath it runs. In the midst of immigrants sits a bridge that connects one economic powerhouse to another with the ideas and dreams of a German-born immigrant that never got to see his dream completed. In the midst of the mighty East River stands the East River Bridge as a towering monument of mans' ability to make even nature bend toward its iron-like will. In the midst of all this stands the Brooklyn Bridge in all of its glory as the pinnacle of industrial and engineering mastery of that time period and as a testament to the lives of the people that lived through a time of intense corruption, new …show more content…
One of the few people that were going to fully push for this project would be William Tweed, a New York politician that was said to have a hand in every creek and crevice of business in the area of New York both legal and otherwise. Tweed began his career in 1851 by going from a simple fireman into an alderman and from then on he found that he no longer had to depend on honest work from then on and by 1869 or the time when the bridge would start to be build and the same year that its very own author of the great bridge would sacrifice his life for the sake of both his own pride and according to some accounts, the bridge’s success. By 1869, he was reaching the pinnacle of his influence as he was in his prime and doing everything that he set his mind to and this was when he would become the “Boss” of New York and from then on become known as Boss Tweed and he might as well been since judges made decisions based on his request, legislators passed or opposed laws at his will, and both the Mayor and Governor were in his pockets and were at his beck call. This was the Tweed Machine and it controlled every aspect of politics and was the epicenter …show more content…
This same bridge is known as the East River Bridge because it stands as a testament to man’s willpower to overcome anything including the mighty and untamed East River. This bridge is sometimes known simply as The Great Bridge and this is because of what it represented. It has components and was privy to some of America’s worst political corruption, but it was also able to witness the emergence of new ideas through immigrants. However maybe more than anything else, it is representative of America as the innovative and industrial powerhouse that it both was becoming and has become to not only stop two world wars because of its involvement but ensure one of the longest periods of world peace in
The next chapter, "The Triumph of Art over Nature," explores in greater detail the beliefs of upstate New Yorkers. Accordingly, problems in the construction process of the Canal and a project of immense size and complexity for that era. According to Sheriff, the Canal was “a tribute to republicanism” and a great “American achievement.” Canal supporters saw the project as the product of an unusual American art. "Republican Free Men" built the canal, according to a capstone in Lockport, near Buffalo (p. 35). New Yorkers realized that most of the canal laborers shared no resemblance to republican free men. They were
The traffic today in NYC is hectic enough and imagine how it would look like without the highways that were built in the city today. The traffic would be ten times as worse as it is today. Robert Moses was guiding NYC in the right direction when it came to elevating the traffic coming in and out of the city by building or proposing more highways.
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today proclaimed that a Flatbush teenager has been prosecuted for murder and affiliated charges coming from the lethal shooting of a 38 year old father who was trying to retrieve his son's baseball cap supposedly stolen a few days prior to the shooting.
…In 1869, after a long, bitter and often terrifying struggle against Indian attacks, brutal weather, floods, labor shortages, political chicanery, lawlessness and a war, the first transcontinental railroad finally became a reality. Now the way was open for vast expansion and social changes that would make America the industrial giant of the world. ... One of the great engineering feats of history and ... a fascinating chapter in the development of our country.
In Mary Lawson’s The Other Side Of the Bridge, the proginist, Arthur Dunn faces many problems and obstacles throughout the novel, Arthur eventually overcomes his negative emotions and obstacles and comes to peace with them. Arthur overcomes his resentment and emotions towards Jake and overcomes his negative feelings towards Laura and the farm.
New York is a very important city. It’s the center of economy, trade, and is the highest populated city in America. None of this would be possible without the Erie Canal. As stated in the background essay,” In nine years, canal tolls more than recouped the entire cost of construction.” This shows how much money the canal made. More money means better economy. The canal made New York city so rich, that it created the word,” millionaire”. This was just one of the ways the Erie canal changed America.
The author wrote about Eddie who has been having it rough lately. He tried to make the best out of his situation living under the circumstances that he does. His family keeps pressuring into avenging his cousin's death. But he still manages to keep his head held high although it seemed like the entire world was against him. He avoids getting into trouble or doing drugs because he knows that he wants a good future and doing those things would not help. He keeps his head down and works for his dollar no matter how hard it can get for him.
'Although everyone thought a transcontinental railroad was a good idea, deep disagreement arose over its path. The Northern states. The Americans who are sponsoring this build, and are hiring all of these workers are not even trying to act like they care. There are these hard working men out here, only earning a living of seven or eight dollars a month. It is horrible to see these men tricked out of their labor, when in fact, they are doing these people a favor. And to know that they do not even care for the health of their workers, makes me feel sick. While building a tunnel through a mountain, it collapsed. This killed off a good percentage of the workers the Americans hired.
The old Dutch wall was pulled down during the English Rule to make way for new housing whereas early merchants also started to built their warehouses and shops on Wall Street for business. For instance, one decade after the Revolutionary war in 1792, two dozen stockbrokers gathered under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to trade stocks only among themselves and to figure out how to handle the huge volume of business. Theses twenty-four men founded the New York Stock Exchange in 40 Wall Street. With this in mind, I would provide photos of the WIC settlement with the wall and the picture of the Buttonwood agreement on Wall Street so that the audience have an illustration of the past and nowadays. Furthermore, I would present my project in a form of a speech because I have a better control staying with my five minutes time frame. Overall, the reason I choose this topic was because New York City is the world financial capital and what happens on Wall Street can have an impact on people from a wide variety of socioeconomic and even in our
New York City, the shining icon of the American dream and the mixing pot of cultures, was but a name I knew when I was young. Nine years ago, I finally set foot on the fabled city when my family immigrated to the United States. The gigantic airport, JFK International, spanned for miles and its terminals stood proudly over the jumbo jets below. That night, nausea from the plane’s descension and the entropic movements of my aunt’s Jeep prevented me from seeing the outside world. I rested my head on my mom’s lap while still imaging what the city was like.
Yesterday in a rainy Brooklyn night a car crashed in the side of the Brooklyn Bridge late night. Ronald Adams was the man that died in the car accident and a witness was an unknow hitchhiker.
Scenario #1: In the event of an unplanned closure of the Walt Whitman Bridge, traffic will be detoured from I-76 West to I-676 North to the Ben Franklin Bridge. Ben Franklin Bridge is the only viable option to cross the Delaware River in this area. See Appendix A – DNC Traffic Post Outreach.
Once O’Shaughnessy and Strauss believed they could build the bridge, politics came into the picture. In 1923, the California state legislature passes a bill that allowed the establishment of a Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District. The district’s job was to oversee the project and run the bridge once it was built. Over the next few years, many people spoke up both for and against the building of the bridge. The land on both ends of the bridge was owned by the U.S. military. Before any plans could move forward, the military would have to approve the project and give the Bridge District permission to use War Department land. An army colonel was appointed to hold hearings on the matter and “for seven months, he listened to both
One of the best things about New York is its never-ending open spaces where you can wander and wonder about the city’s mysteries. The High Bridge finally re-opened to the public after its 40 year restoration since 1970s.
Because of advancements in today’s technology in construction field, many types of bridges are being constructed depending on the requirement and their suitability for the situations.