Daily News from New York, New York • 371

INSIDE Faces and Places ACTION LINE Housing agency okays rent cut Page 4 Page 5 DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 9. 1986 lit 'k9mSmSI llllflllltlsi 4 i- "ie CHARLES PRATTIM DAILY NEWS MANHATTAN Bridge will be revitalized by the Department of Transportation at a cost of almost $1 35 million. (SoGY7 OS i to it BDSfr Site udDqihi By ALBERT DAVILA the structures have undergone or are undergoing major and needed repairs. From the Brooklyn Bridge to the smaller Third Ave. Bridge, the Department of Transportation is spending millions of dollars in city, state and federal funds to put the bridges in order.

'Age finally caught up' "We've invested a lot of money on these bridges," said George Zandala-sini, deputy director for engineering management for the Department of Transportation. "Age has finally caught up with many of these bridges. In the future, we will be bringing additional maintenance staff to keep maintenance on(going). The bill for the three bridges connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River will total more than $500 million when the job finally is completed. The estimate for construction cost for the Brooklyn Bridge is the Manhattan Bridge will be revitalized at a cost of $134,800,000, and the bill for the Williamsburg Bridge is $237,900,000.

Reconstruction of the Brooklyn Bridge is almost complete. The work included reconstruction of the Brooklyn Tower pier protection and the installation of gantry signs on the bridge approaches. These projects were completed in 1982. Also completed was the rehabilitation of the existing pedestrian promenade be tween the main towers. Under construction is the rehabilitation of the main cable anchorages and the reconstruction of the remainder of the pedestrian promenade.

The existing promenade stairways have been replaced with ramps to provide easy access to pedestrians, cyclists and the handicapped. In addition, the promenade was extended in Brooklyn to Tillary St More contracted work Another contract calls for replacement of all suspensions, stay cables, handropes, main cable wrapping and necklace lighting and the rehabilitation of the tower tops. Future con-See BRIDGES Page 2 Daily News Start Writer There are 1,980 structures within the City of New York that can be classified as either bridges or tunnels. This is the story of some of them. The story, more precisely, of some of the 161 bridges and one tunnel in the Borough of Brooklyn.

To be absolutely precise, this story develops around the 19 bridges and one tunnel that cut across waterway routes to Brooklyn and also across the boundaries of the borough. After years of benign neglect, and patch-up work brought about by the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, the bridges in the city fell into serious disrepair. This has now changed and many of.