Brooklyn Bridge

noun

a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5,989 feet (1,825 meters) long.

Brooklyn Bridge

A suspension bridge built between Manhattan and Brooklyn in the late nineteenth century; Manhattan and Brooklyn are today two boroughs of New York City. At the time of its completion, the Brooklyn Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge.

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The Brooklyn Bridge is mentioned in several common expressions about the sale of the bridge by one person to another (the bridge is actually public property). A person who “could sell someone the Brooklyn Bridge” is persuasive; a person who “tries to sell the Brooklyn Bridge” is extremely dishonest; a person who “would buy the Brooklyn Bridge” is gullible.

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New York police officials said it appeared that the Cuauhtémoc had lost power as it was leaving New York Harbour and was dragged towards Brooklyn Bridge by the current.

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Authorities in New York are investigating the site where a Mexican sailing ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge for clues about how the fatal collision occurred.

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Nineteen people have been injured and four remain in a serious condition after a tall Mexican Navy training ship crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.

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The troop has taken field trips to Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge and to a Colombian restaurant in Queens where the girls sang along to Shakira.

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I go down to the one under the Brooklyn Bridge sometimes.

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