Brooklyn Bridge 15 years working to sell the idea. He had previously designed and constructed shorter suspension bridges, such as Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. In February 1867, the New York State Senate passed a bill that allowed the construction of a suspension bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Two months later, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company was incorporated. The company was tasked with constructing what was then known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. While conducting surveys for the bridge project, Roebling sustained a crush
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City Subway) 6 trains to be lengthened to nine cars, and allowed express trains to open all doors at the station (previously the doors only opened in eight of the ten cars). Upon its completion, the Worth Street station to the north was closed due to its close proximity to the platform extensions, and, as such, the station was renamed Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street. After Worth Street station closed, the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station was known as "Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street". The name was reverted to "Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall" in 1995. Google Maps: Street View: Abandoned Stations: Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City