“It’s an icon for not only New York, but for America.”

“It’s an icon for not only New York, but for America.”

Ron Schweiger

Brooklyn’s official historian, on the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. The 6,000-foot-long landmark is one of the nation’s oldest suspension bridges and among its most treasured.

“I cannot give you a precise figure for the aid workers who are supposed to come in, but we would like to get more experts on board.”

Elisabeth Byrs

Spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, regarding relief work in Myanmar. On Friday, the military junta finally gave the green light to foreign aid workers. More than 120,000 people died or are missing as a result of cyclones that hit the country three weeks ago.