Memorial Day Weekend, Fleet Week, and the Brooklyn Bridge Turns 125

Memorial Day weekend and Fleet Week are joined this year by the 125th celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. Festivities surrounding this important architectural landmark include an outdoor film series (some indoors, too), guided walking tours, music, and dancing. NewYorkology provides a comprehensive list of events. I look forward to seeing the amazing Telectroscope, an invention of British artist Paul St George that will allow New Yorkers and Londoners to wave to one another through a large telescopic device. More information on that here.
The image you see with this post is a photo I took of a TV monitor screening the film On the Town (1949), directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, and starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin, about three sailors looking for fun and romance on a 24-hour shore leave in New York. In this frame, they're on the Brooklyn Bridge. The movie's music (Leonard Bernstein) and lyrics (Betty Comden and Adolph Green) can always help with general directions: "The Bronx is up, and the Battery's down."
I'm feeling a tug toward the shoreline myself, so next week I'll begin a new series of walks on the promenades of New York.
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