Editing Brooklyn Bridge (section)

===Culture===
The Brooklyn Bridge has had an impact on idiomatic [[American English]]. For example, references to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" are frequent in American culture, sometimes presented as a historical reality but more often as an expression meaning an idea that strains credulity. [[George C. Parker]] and [[William McCloundy]] were two early 20th-century con men who may have perpetrated this scam successfully, particularly on new immigrants,<ref>{{cite news |title=For You, Half Price |first=Gabriel |last=Cohen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/thecity/27brid.html |newspaper=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331 |date=November 27, 2005 |access-date=February 20, 2010}}</ref> although the author of ''The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History'' wrote, "No evidence exists that the bridge has ever been sold to a 'gullible outlander'".{{sfn|Haw|2005|p=145}}

[[File:Love locks of the Brooklyn Bridge.jpg|thumb|left|Love locks on the Brooklyn Bridge|alt="Love locks" on the Brooklyn Bridge. Couples inscribe a date and their initials onto a lock, attach it to the bridge, and throw the key into the water as a sign of their love.]]

As a tourist attraction, the Brooklyn Bridge is a popular site for clusters of [[love lock]]s, wherein a couple inscribes a date and their initials onto a lock, attach it to the bridge, and throw the key into the water as a sign of their love. The practice is illegal in New York City and the NYPD can give violators a $100 fine. NYCDOT workers periodically remove the love locks from the bridge at a cost of $100,000 per year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/nyregion/brooklyn-bridge-lovelocks.html|title=Dear John: Brooklyn Bridge Discourages Token of Love, With a Smile|last=Nir|first=Sarah Maslin|date=November 14, 2016|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2016/10/8/13211344/brooklyn-bridge-love-locks-banned-new-york|title=Brooklyn Bridge Is No Place for 'Love Locks,' Says City Officials|last=Walker|first=Ameena|date=October 8, 2016|website=Curbed NY|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Mary|last=Frost|url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/10/07/love-locks-lost-on-brooklyn-bridge/|title='Love Locks' Lost, On Brooklyn Bridge|date=October 7, 2016|website=Brooklyn Eagle|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref>

To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/20/archives/brooklyn-bridge-museum-is-planned-plaque-put-up-target-date-of-1976.html|title=Brooklyn Bridge Museum Is Planned|date=August 20, 1974|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 4, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976.<ref name="nyt19760528">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/28/archives/refound-art-of-the-brooklyn-bridge.html|title=Refound Art of the Brooklyn Bridge|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=May 28, 1976|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref> These documents were given to the [[New York City Municipal Archives]], where they are normally located,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/14/archives/archives-get-plans-of-brooklyn-bridge.html|title=Archives Get Plans Of Brooklyn Bridge|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=April 14, 1976|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref> though a selection of them were displayed at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art (original building)|Whitney Museum of American Art]] when they were discovered.<ref name="nyt19760528" />

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