ABOUT THIS BOOK: Much was written about the Great East River Bridge in 1883, the year it was completed. Little was written, however, about the two cities the Great Bridge joined. It was during the 1880s that America's final configuration was taking shape, and its urban fabric was emerging as a conspicuous quality of the nation's landscape. The bridge, which provided the first permanent link between the country's first and third largest cities, symbolized this process. This study offers a brief glimpse of New York and Brooklyn as they were in 1883, a slice at one moment in time, a fleeting impression of daily life, of culture, poverty, wealth, politics, and society. It is written as though 1883 had recently ended, without the benefit of one hundred years of hindsight. Because our study concerns one point in time—a single year that ends on December 31, 1883—much of what it contains has no ending, and only a few of the issues it describes are resolved. Just as in real life, very little ever comes to a finite termination. For the rest, then, the reader is invited to discover, on his or her own, the course of events that ensued after the last day of December in 1883.

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