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To the right, the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge across the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. When the first pedestrians crossed on December 1, 1866, this was the longest suspension bridge in the world until the 1883 completion of the Brooklyn Bridge also by Roebling. Read all about it here they started building it ten years earlier, but the Civil War slowed construction. This was the first bridge to use both vertical suspenders and diagonal stays fanning from each of its big stone towers, so it served as the prototype for Roebling's design of the Brooklyn Bridge. Cincinnati sort of has the original bridge, just smaller.
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At the foot of the Suspension Bridge on the Covington side of the river, the new eighteen-floor luxury condominium tower, designed by Daniel Libeskind Ascent. Daniel Libeskind is the fellow designing the replacement for the World Trade Center Towers at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, this thing. It seems everything happens in Cincinnati first.
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