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The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed / suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River.

It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and formally so named by the city government in 1915.

Since opening, it has become an icon of New York City and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972. (Resource Wikipedia).

At the age of 25 years Juergen Weiss discovered the passion to travel, in order to become acquainted with stranger countries, people and cultures. After yourneys on the African Continent, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, he continued to go further to the East. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and also Hongkong were his goals. In the mid 90`s, Juergen fulfilled his dream finally, when he traveled for a Backpack-Route to South America. And only one year later, he crossed Central America, from Mexico City to Panama City. After some Spain and Portugal-Journeys and after two Greenland Cruiseships, he traveled several times into the North American Continent, and also to Alaska, where Juergen was already seven times. The winter 2005 he...