The colonial-era suspension footbridge was packed with sightseers when it gave way on Sunday evening, sending people plunging about 10 meters into the water.
Endless pedestrians and sightseers populate the upper walkway and to get a spectacular view of Brooklyn Heights and Lower Manhattan we recommend you do the same.
I did not much like the notion, because in places of that sort in Paris they are apt to make their disapproval of sightseers from another world unpleasantly obvious.
Behind me a woman with a 30 Rock golf shirt, her voice struggling to be heard over the racket, was giving a well-rehearsed tour speech to a group of Japanese sightseers.
There was a fatal helicopter crash in New York City seven years ago when five sightseers drowned after an open-door flight crashed in the East River off the Upper East Side.