lawrence ordine

bayside

1.a section of the cable being replaced on the brooklyn bridge could be suspended across the museum. and of course the history of the building of the bridge and why it is representative of it's time and place--I would show ken burns documentary on loop.

2 road plan as robert moses conceived it with super highway across lower manhattan.

3. first big board of ny stock exchange

4. original plan of central park

5.first grid plan of nyc

6. oldest subway car

7.statue from facade of penn station

8.photos of five points then and now

9.boss tweed's hat

10. photo or painting of every mayor from dutch to bloomberg

the bridge represented the highest achievement of the city to that point. It has remained a jewel of the city and an image that represents nyc as the golden gate reprsents SF.