Friday, January 4, 2013

The Pulaski Bridge: A Brief and Strange History

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In 1969, a bomb was removed from "a rubble-strewn building site" underneath the bridge—"a 500-pound, rust-colored, World War II aerial bomb that neighborhood youngsters had been playing on for two years," the Times reported. "Sometimes we'd go up on the bridge and throw bricks and bottles at it," one such youngster told the paper.

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Henry Stewart is the Culture Editor at The L Magazine and some kind of editor at Brooklyn Magazine. He has always lived in Brooklyn.

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