The one New York landmark that never failed to astonish and delight me, however many times it presented itself to my view in all the years I lived on the island of Manhattan, was the Brooklyn Bridge.
It's one of the most beautiful and dramatic structures ever created. Writing in Harper's Weekly on the occasion of its opening, in 1893, architecture critic Montgomery Schuyler said:
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable
monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote
posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not
a palace, but a bridge.
The image above is by Currier and Ives.