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By Hunter Walker 11/18/11 12:45pm

Field Trips

The impromptu amateur rap concert in Foley Square. (Photo: Hunter Walker)

After Stormy Week, Occupy Wall Street Takes Thousands on a Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Leading up to Thursday night's Occupy Wall Street march across the Brooklyn Bridge, the atmosphere was ominous. Streets in the financial district were filled with helmeted police officers on horseback and empty police wagons. After an afternoon filled with hundreds of violent arrests, protesters in Zuccotti Park prepared for the worst as they readied to culminate the day with a massive march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Read More

By Gillian Reagan 5/22/08 2:54pm

City Throws Bash For Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th Birthday

Break out the bubbly! The Brooklyn Bridge is way way way over the hill at 125 this year and New York is celebrating with several birthday bashes this weekend including concerts, movie nights, fireworks, dancing and ... uh mini-golf.

The only requisite birthday event missing is karaoke but maybe the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Broadway master Marvin Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 5/12/08 6:52pm

Yo, BK Bridge! Happy Birthday.

It's the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge this month and the city is rolling out a nearly week-long celebration through Memorial Day.

The five-day festivities kick off on May 22 with a performance by the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, and a Grucci fireworks show, the city announced today. A series Read More

By Staff 4/06/07 8:30am

Events for April 6, 2007

8:30 a.m. A Way of the Cross procession will start at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th Street between First and Second avenues, and proceed along 42nd Street to Eighth Avenue. 10 a.m. A Way of the Cross procession will start at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, 250 Cathedral Place in Brooklyn, then proceed over the Brooklyn Bridge, Read More

By John Koblin 3/19/07 12:00am

A Central Park Figure

Location: What’s the value of living near a New York City park? Benepe: I think it’s the crucial factor for many people when choosing where they live and where they invest their money and develop. Soon after I became parks commissioner, I noticed in the real-estate sections, increasingly, how many of the ads focus on Read More

By Staff 12/07/06 5:01pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • An $8.995 million triplex penthouse is awarded "Estate of the Day" honors at Luxist, a Web site that salivates over Arctic retreats and seaside sprawls. This Manhattan home has "raspberry parfait" walls, a wet bar, solarium, and six bedrooms. [Lux]
  • What should one get for his wealthy loved one this winter? "It's impossible to Read More
By Staff 9/07/06 9:30am

Old Family, New Era

Here is a visually arresting piece of literature a reader picked up near the Borough Hall train stop in Brooklyn last night. Seeing the Statue of Liberty right behind the Brooklyn Bridge kind of catches your eye. But so does seeing the word words "New Era" anywhere near the name Tracy Boyland. Her brother, father Read More

By Staff 8/18/06 12:32pm

Hillary Backtracks

Our junior senator thinks condos are all right after all for Brooklyn Bridge Park, after thinking about it for eight days, The Brooklyn Papers reports. Meanwhile, today the Empire State Development Corporation, which is creating the park, filed court papers to evict three tenants on the piers whose leases, it says, have expired, spokesman Read More

By Staff 12:44pm

Clinton’s Brookyln Bridge Bash

The Brooklyn Papers reported on Friday that Hillary Clinton is bashing the Brooklyn Bridge Park luxury condo plan. Sayeth Hill: "If parks had to be self-sustaining, would anyone have ever built a park?" ... "Public land should be public land." -Matthew Grace


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