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Staten Island | Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

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This suspension bridge connects the boroughs of Staten Island (viewpoint) and Brooklyn (background). Its central span of almost 1300 m was the world's longest from the completion of the bridge in 1964 until 1981. Fort Wadsworth appears in the left foreground of the photograph.