‘Garbage of love’ trashes the Brooklyn Bridge
Ingenious tourists have come up with a new twist on the Brooklyn Bridge “locks of love” phenomena: “garbage of love.”
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) periodically removes thousands of padlocks inscribed with heartfelt declarations from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway. So visitors have increasingly taken to expressing their love – or something – by tying bits of garbage to the railings.
On a recent trip to the walkway, the path was festooned with airline boarding passes, earbuds, hair scrunchies, ribbons with names written on them, stickers listing ingredients, shoe laces, bits of plastic, grocery store shopping bags, luggage tags with overseas names and phone numbers, meeting name tags, and bits of cloth.