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September sunsets on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Brooklyn Bridge.

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Rays of light fall on New York City’s bridges.

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New York City

September 2019

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Space and Place blog #8- Nov. 29

Brooklyn Bridge

The day after Thanksgiving this year, I decided to walk off the turkey by journeying across the Brooklyn Bridge. This was my first time walking across the 5,989 feet bridge, but I sure hope it’s not my last. This cabled suspension bridge connects Brooklyn, New York to Manhattan over the East River and was completed in 1883.

One can tell right away that the bridge’s main purpose is to connect two otherwise separated parts of New York, but it’s turned into a popular tourist destination as well. Though, locals still use it to drive, walk or bike across. One of the most fascinating parts of this bridge for me from a rhetorical standpoint is how bodies move about the space. There are specific, marked lanes for people walking, versus bikers on the top area. Underneath that, there are lanes for cars going both ways. For the most part, people seemed to respect the guidelines and stay in their correct walking or biking lanes, but on occasion a walker would step into the biker lane to get around a slow group of people or to take a photo and then bikers would approach out of nowhere and have to swerve around the pedestrian.

Anyone has access to this bridge, and it’s structured in straight lines to encourage people to keep moving and walk across. I walked the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan so that I could see the downtown Manhattan skyline as I approached land, which I’d imagine is a different feel than walking towards the much smaller Brooklyn skyline from the opposite end.

There didn’t seem to be much of a power structure at the place because everyone merely did their own thing and moved on, but there were protective measures in place such as high rails and cables so that no one would get injured or accidentally fall onto the moving cars beneath the bridge.