Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883 linking Brooklyn and Manhattan

The brooklyn bridge opened to the public in 1883, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City. The almanac entry places that opening on Sunday, May 24, 2026, as part of its history listing for the day.

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The bridge’s opening gave the city a fixed crossing between two boroughs that had been separated by water. The source identifies Brooklyn and Manhattan as the two places it connected, and nothing in the entry adds a later change to that basic fact.

That makes the date the key detail for anyone tracking the bridge’s place in the city’s timeline: 1883 is the year the span opened to the public, and it remains the specific milestone the almanac highlights.

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The same entry says Sunday, May 24, 2026, is the 144th day of the year, with 221 to follow. It also pairs the bridge note with other history items, including related archive references to an NTSB investigation into a Brooklyn Bridge ship crash and images of New York City’s COVID-19 dead projected onto the bridge.

For readers looking for the essential fact, the almanac gives one clear answer: the Brooklyn Bridge entered public use in 1883, and the crossing linked Brooklyn with Manhattan.