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Those “love locks” that tourists clip to the Brooklyn Bridge are getting ugly now that visitors are expressing their everlasting devotion with condoms, bras, trash and, yes, feminine ...
The city went on a lock-cutting frenzy on the Brooklyn Bridge in the first week of June, clipping 4,000 so-called “love locks” left by tourists as mementos of their trip to New York and symbols of ...
A whole lotta lovin’ was cut off the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday and unceremoniously dumped into rolling trash bins. The NYC Department of Transportation says it has had enough of romantic couples ...
Officials said that love locks, which are found on landmarks across the world, first began appearing on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2009 and that since 2013, when the DOT started keeping count, more ...
The Brooklyn Bridge isn’t feeling the love. The gym locker-sized padlocks that lovestruck visitors attach to the iconic span as a symbol of undying affection is causing damage to the bridge, … ...
Perhaps Brooklyn is worried that it will become more like Paris — and not in a good way. The city of love must deal with bridges that have become loaded down with thousands of locks — 700,000 ...
Officials said that love locks, which are found on landmarks across the world, first began appearing on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2009 and that since 2013, when the DOT started keeping count, more ...
The honeymoon is over for the locks that couples attach to the Brooklyn Bridge as a memento of their love. The Transportation Department has removed 5,600 locks from the bridge since July and now ...
Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle This vendor sells locks to tourists, who write something on them and then lock them onto parts of the bridge — which is also against the law.