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The Williamsburg Bridge is the J,M,Z Nassau Street Line connection to the Broadway Line in Brooklyn. The bridge is between the Essex Street station in Manhattan and the Marcy Avenue Station in Brooklyn. The bridge was the second link over the east river opening in 1---. The bridge itself was underbuilt from the start because the company that provated the steal ripped the city off giving them a lesser grade. The bridge always seems to be a construction project. There are just two train tracks on the bridge smack in the center of the span. The view down the river is not very good (not like the Manhattan). The footpaths are on eather side of the tracks so they are a very good place to watch trains except there is a 7 foot high fence (When I was there the nort path wasn't opened) or a wire tarp around it opstructing the view (there are some good places). On the approach into Manhattan the footpath is directly over the tracks, so there is no view of trains.

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No trains ran over the Williamsburg Bridge from May to October 1999, due to major reconstruction on the subway approaches. This is a scan of the take-one saying what to do to get to Manhattan and service (the spanish part is not scaned). Service ran here as fallows: J-From Jamaica Center to Myrtle Avenue at all times. J/Z skip-stop service still ran during rush hours in both directions (normally just in peak, passengers needed to get to eather Sutphin Blvd for the E, or Broadway-Eastern Parkway for A,C,L) to Eastern Parkway only (Z trains terminated there) M-From Metropolitan Avenue to Marcy Avenue at all times. A special S shuttle ran from Essex Street to Broad Street or Chambers Street on weekends. It ran from 6 AM to 10 PM only. Rush Hour service from Nassau Street to Southern Brooklyn still ran with a special <M> (not in the brochore but on maps) from Chambers Street to Bay Parkway B39 buses ran over the bridge, there were free magnetic stop transfers at eather Essex St-Delancey St or Marcy Avenue to re-enter the subway

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