The novelist Alexandre Dumas was strongly critical of the construction of the new bridge, commenting that "it was reserved for the eighteenth century to dishonour a monument which the barbarians of the fifth had not dared to destroy".
The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank.
Cathy Sweeney, a spokeswoman with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's department of bridges and tunnels, which operates the bridge, would not comment on the proposal.
I'd love to see some Bridges in the comments, wouldn't you?
In an interview with an Australian radio station, he accused England bowler Stuart Broad of "blatant cheating" for not walking when the umpire failed to spot an edge in the first Test at Trent Bridge - a comment for which he was subsequently fined by the International Cricket Council.
She commended Riley's vocals on "Bridge over Troubled Water", commenting that Murphy should assign Mercedes more solo performances.
"Two weeks since Congresswoman Tenney's appalling conspiracy theory sparked a national outrage, she still refuses to face facts and apologize to the people who are counting on her for leadership," said Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for Democratic super-PAC American Bridge, which flagged the comments.
A spokeswoman for One Brooklyn Bridge Park would not comment.
As a man walked across the bridge Clarkson made a comment that there was a "slope on it".
The England manager, who has been in South Africa to examine the facilities at England's World Cup training base, refused to comment on Bridge's withdrawal from the international scene when questioned on his return to the country today.
