Jacob Riis, the author of the bestseller How the Other Half Lives, hated poverty because it reminded him of his own tumultuous past. ... He was poor as the other immigrants, sleeping in doorways like many other adults and children. ... he writesthe bodies of drowned children turn up in the rivers? ... The one large orphanage room is strewn with beds on both sides. ... Jacob Riis passionate and oftentimes brutal descriptions of the conditions of poverty in the lower East Side of Manhattan were compelling. ...

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Completed in 1883, it connects the  boroughs  of  Manhattan  andBrooklyn  by spanning the  East River. ... It was originally referred to as the  New York and Brooklyn Bridge  and as the  East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of theBrooklyn Daily Eagle,[7]  and formally so named by the city government in 1915. ... Roebling conducted the entire construction from his apartment with a view of the work, designing and redesigning caissons and other equipment. ... Arthur  and  Mayor  Franklin E...

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