In the beginning there was Walt Whitman’s “Brooklyn Ferry.” Then came Henry Miller’s Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Bridge was Hart Crane’s, the Brooklyn accent Thomas Wolfe’s. Truman Capote and Paula Fox wrote their version of the [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Although Occupy Wall Street protestors weren’t able to shut down the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, DNAinfo.com reports that the protestors were still jubilant, dancing and singing in Zuccotti Park after a massive [...]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement is preparing coordinated protests in major cities across the United States for Thursday. The UK’s Guardian reports Occupiers in New York have planned events in all five boroughs throughout the [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The people of Brooklyn strongly reacted after police officers descended on Zuccotti Park in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters. We asked Brooklyn: What do you think should happen next?
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Protesters and union organizers marched from Manhattan’s financial district to Foley Square yesterday as part of ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. (Photo: Shane Hunt / The Brooklyn Ink) Thousands of anti-corporation protesters converged in Manhattan’s [...]
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Whenever John Manbeck, an 80-year-old retired professor of English and former Brooklyn borough historian, drives across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stays in the middle lane. “Drivers tend to drift toward the edges,” said Manbeck. Manbeck [...]
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden was in Brooklyn Wednesday, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other New York officials, to mark the beginning of an intensive face lift to the 127 year-old Brooklyn Bridge. The work [...]
Friday, May 14, 2010
By Jack Mirkinson The bridge plays host to all shades of human activity.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Construction has begun on street and bridge renovations that will ultimately see the Brooklyn Bridge repainted and resurfaced, while the Manhattan Bridge receives new suspension cables. The road work to support bridge construction will be [...]
Monday, December 19, 2011
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