BROOKLYN
Where else can you can you touch, feel and experience such a famous part of New York? – and do it all for free!
One could traverse John Roebling’s steel cable suspension bridge a thousand times and discover something new every 1,600-foot journey.
Rolling west into Manhattan an hour before sunset, one can gaze north for dazzling perspectives of the Chrysler and Empire State buildings illuminated by the low-hanging sun.
But the bridge itself is a work of art, the awesome cables so artistic in the way they spiral upward into the sky.
The fellow bridge walkers are pure New York street theater – fat, skinny, loud, private, friendly, hurried, strange, local, immigrant, tourist, banker, pauper.
The pedestrians on the 1883 bridge prove that Brooklyn truly is America’s Old Country.
Wright is an award-winning travel writer-photographer. Johnson-Wright is an Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator. They live in a restored house in Miami’s Little Havana. Email them at: stevewright64@yahoo.com
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