Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.
- Height
- 84 m276 ft
- Completed
- 1883
- By
- John and Washington Roebling
- Coordinates
- 40° 42′ 22″ N73° 59′ 49″ W · 40.7061, -73.9969
Two granite towers, each pierced by a pair of pointed arches, the four main cables and the web of diagonal stays fanning down to the deck, and the anchorages at both ends.
Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under New York, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.
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