Based on the idea that a secret tunnel connects London to Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing, artist/inventor Paul St. George has installed his amazing Telectroscope at both ends -- just in time for the 125th birthday celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. The mock-19th century device allows people to see “right through the Earth� from London to New York, and vice versa. Thursday spectators waved, wrote messages on white boards, and played the first transatlantic game of tic-tac-toe with their fellows on the other side of the world. (Those requesting business meetings or trying to arrange marriage proposals will be fast-tracked to the head of the queue.) The Telectroscope will be in place until June 15.

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