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Money and Politics Meet at the Brooklyn Bridge

Kristian Roebling, whose great-great grandparents, Washington Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling, built the Brooklyn Bridge, discusses his family's history and the reasons behind his objection to a new building project that would go up in the the bridge's shadow.

Read entire article at NYT