Editing Brooklyn Bridge (section)

=== Crimes and terrorism ===
[[File:NYPD training exercise on Brooklyn Bridge.jpg|thumb|alt=NYPD officers take part in a training exercise on the Brooklyn Bridge by climbing a large cable leading to a pillar. Under the supervision of a helicopter.|A police training exercise on the bridge]]
[[1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting|On March&nbsp;1, 1994]], Lebanese-born Rashid Baz opened fire on a van carrying members of the [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] Movement, striking 16-year-old student Ari Halberstam and three others traveling on the bridge.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/nyregion/4-hasidic-youths-hurt-in-brooklyn-bridge-shooting.html |title=4 Hasidic Youths Hurt in Brooklyn Bridge Shooting |last=Sexton |first=Joe |date=March 2, 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331 |access-date=June 30, 2010}}</ref> Halberstam died five days later from his wounds, and Baz was later convicted of murder. He was apparently acting out of revenge for the [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre|Hebron massacre]] of Palestinian Muslims a few days prior to the incident.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/19/nyregion/bridge-gunman-gets-141-year-term.html|title=Bridge Gunman Gets 141-Year Term|last=James|first=George|date=January 19, 1995|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 19, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After initially classifying the killing as one committed out of [[Road rage (phenomenon)|road rage]], the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] reclassified the case in 2000 as a terrorist attack.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/nyregion/us-decides-94-attack-on-hasidim-was-lone-act.html|title=U.S. Decides '94 Attack On Hasidim Was Lone Act|last=Dewan|first=Shaila K.|date=December 6, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 19, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The entrance ramp to the bridge on the Manhattan side was dedicated as the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 12, 1995|title=A Bridge Memorial to Slain Teen|pages=1247|work=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-bridge-memorial-to-slain-te/134965589/|first=Donald|last=Bertrand|via=newspapers.com|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/nyregion/28signs.html|title=In Signs Leading to Brooklyn Bridge, A Tribute to Ari Halberstam|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=December 27, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 19, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Several potential attacks or disasters have also been averted. In 1979, police disarmed a stick of dynamite placed under the Brooklyn approach,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/01/archives/stick-of-dynamite-is-discovered-under-a-brooklyn-bridge-ramp.html|title=Stick of Dynamite Is Discovered Under a Brooklyn Bridge Ramp|date=April 1, 1979|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 5, 2019}}</ref> and an artist in Manhattan was arrested that year after another bombing attempt.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/05/archives/manhattan-artist-seized-in-case-of-bridge-bomb.html|title=Manhattan Artist Seized In Case of Bridge 'Bomb'|date=August 5, 1979|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 5, 2019}}</ref> In 2003, truck driver [[Iyman Faris]] was sentenced to about 20 years in prison for providing material support to [[Al-Qaeda]], after an earlier plot to destroy the bridge by cutting through its support wires with [[blowtorch]]es was thwarted.<ref>{{cite news|first=Eric|last=Lichtblau| title=Trucker Sentenced to 20 Years in Plot Against Brooklyn Bridge | work=The New York Times |language=en-US|issn=0362-4331 | date=October 29, 2003 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/29/us/trucker-sentenced-to-20-years-in-plot-against-brooklyn-bridge.html | access-date=February 27, 2020}}</ref>