No one disputes that the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the architectural and engineering masterpieces of this city. It’s beloved, iconic, and a technological marvel. It’s also quite beautiful, and no ...

Unlike the Brooklyn Bridge, whose neo-gothic towers are made of stone, the suspension cables of the Williamsburg Bridge are supported by steel towers. The industrial look of the steel truss towers was ...

The Farm on Kent founders Ryan Watson (left) and Henry Sweets at their waterfront space by the Williamsburg Bridge. Stephen Yang Strolling down Williamsburg’s Kent Avenue, amid all the cranes and ...

NYPD officers scaled the Williamsburg Bridge Sunday to talk down a suicidal New Yorker in a daring rescue captured on bodycam video. Members of the department’s Emergency Service Unit climbed up the ...

The Williamsburg Bridge may not have inspired the adoration that certain other bridges have — no Simon and Garfunkel songs or Hart Crane paeans — but the Brooklyn Arts Council is making sure that its ...

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A young woman was killed when she was thrown from a vehicle in a one-car crash on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge early Thursday. "This was my baby ...

The construction of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903 brought about a total transformation of the neighborhood on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. The bridge became an immigrant highway and tens of ...

In 1987, the Williamsburg Bridge was in a dire state of disrepair. Its cables were corroding, the steel towers were decaying, its foundation was cracking, and the entire bridge was swaying and ...

Know your bridges, Brooklynites. The tourists do. Our iconic spans are excellent spots for scenic strolls in every season of the year. Didn’t your New Year’s resolutions include a resolve to get more ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A motorcyclist was killed in a wreck Thursday morning on the Williamsburg Bridge. Authorities say the 24-year-old was eastbound when he struck a section of the bridge ...

Pedestrians and bicyclists were at each other’s throats this week on the remaining Williamsburg Bridge bike path now that the city has closed the southern lane for repairs that will drag on through ...

Officers had to climb a bridge towers and shimmy across suspension. Police officers climbed to the top of a New York City bridge on Sunday to rescue a shirtless man who had threatened to jump. The New ...