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Maintaining New York City’s century-old bridges isn’t the most glamorous work. Workers regularly put fresh coats of paint on steel, oil cables and replace corroded components, doing the regular upkeep that goes unnoticed by the million New Yorkers who cross the bridges every day.
But that work is what keeps the crossings from collapsing into the East River…