Decades ago, Hart Crane wrote “To Brooklyn Bridge,” his most famous poem. “And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced / As though the sun took step of thee, yet left / Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,– / Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!” Crane would be appalled to learn, then, that the Brooklyn Bridge will soon be blotted from view by an eighteen story commercial center. Historian David McCullough is appalled, and doing something about it: in this urgent, edgy, beautifully-filmed video made for the New York Times, McCullough implores the city, and Americans, to prevent the defacement of an historic treasure.
