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July 7, 1981: Ironworkers on the Brooklyn Bridge attended to cables that had snapped, closing down the pedestrian walkway from June 28 — when the cables broke — until early August. “Akira Aimi, the 32-year-old Japanese freelance photographer who was critically injured when he was hit by one of the snapped cables, died yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital,” reported The Times. Have no fear, however, said a representative of the Transportation Department. “When the retainers are installed, it will be equally safe for pedestrians and bicycles. I would walk across it then with my wife and family anytime,” he said.
Vintage Photograph of Ironworkers Fixing a Snapped Cable Up High on the Brooklyn Bridge
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

Feb. 18, 1949: Garbage was dumped onto a scow at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, on its way to Staten Island, where the city had high hopes to reclaim nearly 2,000 acres of marsh for a parkway or even an airport. “We go everywhere against opposition and deep-rooted prejudice,” said Henry F. Cunningham, a World War II naval commander who oversaw the fleet charged with taking trash to Fresh Kills landfills. “We take a swampy area full of mosquitos and odors no better than those from refuse and transform it into fertile soil that can be made into beautiful parks,” Mr. Cunningham said.
Vintage Photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge and a Garbage Barge from The New York Times in 1949
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

Brooklyn DUMBO after the blizzard JUNO, Jan 2015
Video Tour of Brooklyn's Dumbo Neighborhood After the Juno Snowstorm
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Brooklyn-based videographer Keiichi Hiramoto headed outside with his camera after the non-blizzard Juno last week, and shot some great footage around Dumbo of kids playing in the snow, dogs…

East Village, NYC, 2014
Photographer Transforms Modern NYC Into Century Old Photographs
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What year is it anyway? Local photographer Justin Borucki lives in the modern era, yet uses equipment and photography techniques from his great-great-grandfather's. Borucki has spent the…