page 247 summary

on page 247 the author compares the brooklyn bridge to other bridges in the past for example: babylon and her hanging garden, egypt her pyramid, Athens her acropolis, rome her atheneum so brooklyn is as her bridge. he talks about the significance about the brooklyn bridge to brooklyn and brooklynites. he signifies the bridge in such away that it explains the importance of it. he talks about how the brooklyn put to different world together. it creates a path between city hall of new york and city hall of brooklwn. it unifies to great cities. he describes that as a rope being tied to the waist and fulling them together and closer. he also refers to an author who states in 1900 AD brooklyn will be the city and new york will be the suburb. written my george Templeton strong. he also talks about the importance of brooklyn on real estate that attracted middle class business men. in some parts he also explains brooklyn being more nicer and better than new york city. he explains that it has more space to grow and that manhattan is small and has no space. then he says that on one anticipated manhattan would grow vertically. he means that no one predicted that such a small area would have so much potential. they all thought that brooklyn would grow to be greater because it had more space but manhattan grew vertically because the sky is the limit vertically.