2. Genin’s Footbridge

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Image from Library of Congress

In 1852, a cast-iron footbridge was built across Broadway at Fulton Street to encourage pedestrians to cross over the crowded and busy street. Constructed in 1866, at the urging of Broadway merchants (particularly a hatter named Genin), it was generally disliked and torn down just two years later.