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Manhattan Bridge

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff, the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m).”

Wikipedia article Manhattan Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure · built in 1910, by Carrère and Hastings.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Spans East River between Front and Canal St., New York
  • When was it listed? August 1983
  • Category. structure
  • When was it built? 1910
  • Architect. Carrère and Hastings
  • National Register reference number. 83001694 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Manhattan Bridge, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Manhattan Bridge, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

1,365 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,365 fires within 5 miles of Manhattan Bridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 93 started naturally. 104 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined882
Arson/incendiarism104
Natural93
Smoking82
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning58
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Fireworks25
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Manhattan Bridge: 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Graphite, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave DepositIron, Garnet, TitaniumOccurrence
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.GraphiteUnknown
General Metallic Oxides/Jersey CityManganeseUnknown
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite DepositIronOccurrence
55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
DUMBO Industrial District0.3 miles2000
Fulton Ferry District0.4 miles1974
Brooklyn Bridge0.4 miles1966
Public School 70.5 miles1983
Quarters A0.6 miles1974
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims0.6 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001694 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings CountyAll 207 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.