Construction started in 1901 and, by the time it was opened to traffic in 1909, the Queensboro was the longest cantilever bridge in the country, according to the New York City Department of Transportation. The bridge today doesn't look quite like it did at first.
The meaning and origin of the expression: Walk the plank. Walk the plank. Meaning. A form of execution in which victims were forced to walk, often blindfold and with hands tied, off a plank of wood and into the sea. Origin.
walk the plank. 1  to be forced by pirates to walk to one's death off the end of a plank jutting out over the water from the side of a ship. 2  to walk blindfolded and manacled off a plank projecting from the side of a ship, as the victims of pirates were sometimes forced to do.