Photo Of The Day: May 23, 2008

Yesterday marked the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Small by today's standards, its creation was a milestone in connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island. At the time, Brooklyn was treated as a city in its own right, which it still is, but now it's seen more as just one borough in the City of New York. Way back in the 1700s, it was referred to as Brook Land, because of the preponderance of brooks and streams -- but that was when there was still farmland in Lower Manhattan. In this picture, the Williamsburg Bridge -- which opened 26 years later -- is seen behind the Brooklyn Bridge. For more pictures of New York City bridges, visit Paul Scharff Photography.com.