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Brooklyn Bridge #1 (New York City, New York): photo by Jim Rohan, 15 February 2014
If ever
.......the end of the world
..............should arrive,
and chaos
.......sweep off
............. the planet's last ridge,
with the only
.......lonely
..............thing to survive
towering over debris
.......this bridge,
..............then,
as out of a needle-thin bone
.......museums
..............rebuild dinosaurs,
so future's geologist
.......from this bridge alone
..............will remodel
these days
.......of ours.
Vladimir Mayakovsky: from The Brooklyn Bridge, 1925, in Poems, translated by Dorian Rottenberg, 1972
Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dock Streets, looking southwest, Brooklyn: photo by Berenice Abbott, 22 May 1936 (New York Public Library)
Brooklyn Bridge: Looking at New York City from Brooklyn: photo by Daniel Berry Austin, 7 July 1899 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Brooklyn Bridge: Looking East, from New York City side: photo by Daniel Berry Austin, 7 July 1899 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Bridges from Brooklyn: photo by Irving Underhill, 1913 (Library of Congress)
Brooklyn Bridge and Elevated Road to Fulton Ferry: photo by Edgar S. Thomson, c. 1896 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Street Scene near Brooklyn Bridge: photo by George Bradford Brainerd, before 1897 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Construction of Brooklyn Bridge: photo by George Bradford Brainerd, c. 1872 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables: photo by Eugene de Selignac, 7 October 1914 (New York City Municipal Archives / Museum of Photographic Arts Collections)
Bridge Street: photo by George Bradford Brainerd, c. 1872 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Brooklyn Bridge: photo by Edgar S. Thomson, c. 1895 (Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library)
Under the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City. ("Is it just the normal tourists taking pics, or was there a special event that day?" "A special event indeed! They are waiting for my new world record dive of 277 ft from atop the center bridge tower which would have shattered the existing world high dive record by some 105 ft! Little do they know I am actually behind them with a Holga."): photo by Jim Rohan, 4 March 2011
Talman Street, between Jay and Bridge Streets, Brooklyn: photo by Berenice Abbott, 22 May 1936 (New York Public Library)
View of Brooklyn Bridge: photo by George P. Hall and Son, c. 1905 (George Eastman House)
Mayakovsky, Museum: photo by alex_henri, 24 April 2007
Brooklyn Bridge: photo by George P. Hall and Son, c. 1905 (George Eastman House)