Beginning Work for the Bridge

New York, 1895

A start was made on the Long Island City side of the East River Tuesday toward the building of the Blackwell's Island bridge that is to connect Long Island City with New York City. A caisson 133 feet long and 73 feet wide was towed up the river and anchored off Ravenswood, near the proposed site for the pier on the Long Island shore. The work of sinking the caisson will probably be begun in a few days.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page number.