Quick Answer. A color that goes with burgundy is gray. Burgundy, which refers to a reddish-purple color, makes a good combination with gray or any of its shades like light gray or charcoal gray.
The cost to design the project was $3,500,000 (Steinman Company). The cost to construct the bridge was $70, 268,500. Two primary contractors were hired to build the bridge: American Bridge for superstructure - $44,532,900; and Merritt-Chapman and Scott of New York for the foundations - $25,735,600.
On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed what was then the only land passage between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. The bridge's main span over the East River is 1,595 feet 6 inches (486.3 m) . The bridge cost US$15.5 million in 1883 dollars (about US$379,661,000 in today's dollars) to build and an estimated number of 27 people died during its construction.