[buwaya]

From the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/city-lore-new-york-s-other-master-bridge-builder.html

CITY LORE; New York’s Other Master Bridge Builder
By Bernard Stamler
April 16, 2000

His works soar above the water, spanning the city’s rivers and connecting New York to the rest of the country. But who has heard of Othmar H. Ammann?

Donald Trump hadn’t, at least not back in 1964 when he was a high school student and his father took him to the dedication ceremony for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. ‘’It was a sad experience,’’ Mr. Trump recalled. ‘’For years, various politicians had fought the bridge. Now that it was built, I watched as these same people all got up and took credit for it, congratulating themselves and introducing one another. The only one not introduced was the man who made the bridge, Othmar Ammann.

‘’I had to ask who he was,’’ Mr. Trump said. ‘’I didn’t know who he was, either.’’

[Dilbert56]

Took a circle line cruise narrated by a guy who had written a book called Unique New York. According to him, the US Navy told the NY authorities that, if they built that bridge, they would close the Brooklyn Naval Yard. The risk was an enemy could drop the bridge and close the Narrows, trapping the ships. NY built it and the Yard was closed.

[tired&retired]

The version I read was slightly different. I read it in Jerome Tuccille’s
“Trump: The Saga of America’s Most Powerful Real Estate Baron”