Stride StoriesRunning tour · Manhattan
Two Bridges
3.5 mi run
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The stories on this route
City Hall Park
Look for the tall flagpole near Broadway, by City Hall. It went up in 1921, to remember the Liberty Poles that once stood on this ground.
Brooklyn Bridge: the Roeblings
Look straight ahead at the Manhattan tower: two tall pointed arches, with the roadways running right through them. A father and a son built this, and it cost them both.
Brooklyn Bridge opening, 1883
Look up at the four great cables sweeping down to meet the deck, and the web of diagonal stays. This bridge has had to prove itself.
Emily Warren Roebling
Look at the Brooklyn tower, on the side facing Manhattan. There's a bronze plaque there, put up in 1951 by the Brooklyn Engineers Club. It honours three Roeblings. One line says: "Back of every great work we can find the self-sacrificing devotion of a woman."
Washington Street
Look down Washington Street. The Manhattan Bridge's stone tower sits framed between brick factories, and through the arch under its deck, there's the Empire State Building. This is one of the most photographed spots in New York. It's even on the poster for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
The Manhattan Bridge and the Archway
Look up at the stone vault over your head. You're standing in the Archway, the great arch through the Brooklyn anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge. It's about 45 feet high and 152 feet long.
Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade
Look ahead: a white granite triumphal arch, with two curved colonnades wrapped around the plaza. Our finish line was built as a gateway.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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