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When it opened in May 1883 after fourteen years of work, the Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world and the first to be built with steel-wire cables, a span so ambitious that it earned the nickname the eighth wonder of the world. It crosses the East River to join Manhattan and Brooklyn, and its pair of Gothic-arched granite towers remains one of the most recognisable images of New York. The bridge nearly broke the family that built it. The designer, John A. Roebling, die...