Brooklyn Bridge

NEW YORK — About 1,000 New York City high school students chanted “This is what democracy looks like!’’ and waved homemade signs and banners yesterday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a plan to eliminate their free transit passes. The students walked out of classrooms all over the city at noon and converged at City Hall Park for a rally with elected officials and transit union members. Then they marched across the bridge for a second rally at the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK - Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the nation yesterday to mark two months since the movement's birth and to signal they are not ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, most of them in New York. The demonstrations - which took place in cities including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, Washington, and Portland, Ore. - were peaceful for the most part. Most of the arrests were for blocking streets, and the traffic disruptions were brief.

NEW YORK — Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized yesterday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years. It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin’s modest home in the Marine Park neighborhood, about 7 miles southeast of the Brooklyn Bridge. The most recent intrusion came Tuesday, with officers pounding on the front and back doors, yelling “Police, open up!

It’s a beautiful day and we’re driving across the Brooklyn Bridge. Beneath, the East River is dotted with red, yellow, and blue kayaks. People are walking or riding bikes on the mile-long span. On the far side, a sign greets us: “Welcome to Brooklyn. How Sweet It Is!’’ I had been hearing that Brooklyn was a pretty sweet place these days. Just how sweet I wanted to see for myself. Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I lived in New York, meaning Manhattan. Though I had worked a summer in Brooklyn, at 6 p.m. I would get on the subway and head north, out of there.

NEW YORK -- Our tour bus slowly cruises down 86th Street while the opening credits for the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever" roll on the video monitor. The crowded sidewalks and storefronts outside seem to merge with the scene on the monitor as a very young John Travolta walks down the same busy street. Travolta stops at Lenny's Pizza for two slices just as we drive past the pizzeria. We could be in a time warp -- or on a movie set. Then Travolta turns into Shirt World and reality returns.

NEW YORK - It was Saturday on the first weekend of the New York City Waterfalls public art project, and our reservoir of faith was running dry. We had only a couple of hours to view the display by Olafur Eliasson, so imagine our chagrin when we reached the top deck of Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, touted as the prime viewing spot for landlubbers, and found the exhibit's centerpiece installation under the Brooklyn Bridge shut off. ...

NEW YORK — A prefabricated 350-foot-long bridge that will replace a 109-year-old span across the Harlem River arrived yesterday aboard two barges that were pushed and pulled by tugboats. The 2,400-ton swing bridge passed under the Brooklyn Bridge at 8 a.m., on its way to its home just south of the old Willis Avenue Bridge. The new bridge will be tied up to the shoreline until work begins on its installation in two weeks. The city Department of Transportation hopes to have traffic rolling across the span in November.

Richard Appleyard, a retired elementary school teacher, and his wife, Betty Ann, wanted to make their trip to New York something special. So, the Melrose couple contacted Big Apple Greeter, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showing out-of-town visitors the New York that New Yorkers know best and love most -- their neighborhoods. "We were curious about the practical aspects of living in New York, like how do you buy groceries; and we were also interested in seeing different neighborhoods," Richard says.

It’s a beautiful day and we’re driving across the Brooklyn Bridge. Beneath, the East River is dotted with red, yellow, and blue kayaks. People are walking or riding bikes on the mile-long span. On the far side, a sign greets us: “Welcome to Brooklyn. How Sweet It Is!’’ I had been hearing that Brooklyn was a pretty sweet place these days. Just how sweet I wanted to see for myself. Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I lived in New York, meaning Manhattan. Though I had worked a summer in Brooklyn, at 6 p.m. I would get on the subway and head north,...

NEW YORK - Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the nation yesterday to mark two months since the movement's birth and to signal they are not ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, most of them in New York. The demonstrations - which took place in cities including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, Washington, and Portland, Ore. - were peaceful for the most part. Most of the arrests were for blocking streets, and the traffic disruptions were brief.

NEW YORK — A prefabricated 350-foot-long bridge that will replace a 109-year-old span across the Harlem River arrived yesterday aboard two barges that were pushed and pulled by tugboats. The 2,400-ton swing bridge passed under the Brooklyn Bridge at 8 a.m., on its way to its home just south of the old Willis Avenue Bridge. The new bridge will be tied up to the shoreline until work begins on its installation in two weeks. The city Department of Transportation hopes to have traffic rolling across the span in November.

NEW YORK — About 1,000 New York City high school students chanted “This is what democracy looks like!’’ and waved homemade signs and banners yesterday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a plan to eliminate their free transit passes. The students walked out of classrooms all over the city at noon and converged at City Hall Park for a rally with elected officials and transit union members. Then they marched across the bridge for a second rally at the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK — Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized yesterday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years. It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin’s modest home in the Marine Park neighborhood, about 7 miles southeast of the Brooklyn Bridge. The most recent intrusion came Tuesday, with officers pounding on the front and back doors, yelling “Police, open up!

NEW YORK - It was Saturday on the first weekend of the New York City Waterfalls public art project, and our reservoir of faith was running dry. We had only a couple of hours to view the display by Olafur Eliasson, so imagine our chagrin when we reached the top deck of Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, touted as the prime viewing spot for landlubbers, and found the exhibit's centerpiece installation under the Brooklyn Bridge shut off. ...

NEW YORK -- Our tour bus slowly cruises down 86th Street while the opening credits for the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever" roll on the video monitor. The crowded sidewalks and storefronts outside seem to merge with the scene on the monitor as a very young John Travolta walks down the same busy street. Travolta stops at Lenny's Pizza for two slices just as we drive past the pizzeria. We could be in a time warp -- or on a movie set. Then Travolta turns into Shirt World and reality returns.

Richard Appleyard, a retired elementary school teacher, and his wife, Betty Ann, wanted to make their trip to New York something special. So, the Melrose couple contacted Big Apple Greeter, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showing out-of-town visitors the New York that New Yorkers know best and love most -- their neighborhoods. "We were curious about the practical aspects of living in New York, like how do you buy groceries; and we were also interested in seeing different neighborhoods," Richard says.

Adrian Gonzalez In a season punctuated by the failures of the Red Sox's off-season additions, Gonzalez prevailed. There were slight stumbles, sure – Gonzalez started off the second half two for 24 and hit only one homer between July 8 and August 22. But he said the right things along the way and finished the season with 117 runs batted in (third-highest in the American League) and a .338 average (the team's best since Manny Ramirez hit .349 nearly a decade ago). All of this earned him enough good will to land him the highest of Sox honors: a Dunkin' Donuts commercial.