The weather was perfect to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The blue sky and cool breeze made the walk very
Brooklyn Bridge
pleasurable. Walking from the Brooklyn side, the first stop was the caisson with a plaque paying tribute to the wife of Mr. Roebling.
Emily Roebling's Plaque
Who knows, if she had not helped her husband convey messages and make decisions the bridge may not be here today. The bridge was designed to have foot traffic and horse drawn carriages, but today the bridge is used by vehicles, people riding a bike or walking. After crossing onto the Manhattan side I stopped and remembered a few nights ago when one person in our group came close to injury by crossing when the do not walk sign was up. We made our way back to the African American Burial site. After clearing security, we watched a 25 minute film on how the burial site was found and kept as a memorial site. Sharing the importance of preserving the past to students is a must. If you do not learn from the past, your chances of making the same decisions increase incredibly. After lunch at a pizza place we found another purse table. Of course we stopped to look at the merchandise, but I didn’t find anything I couldn’t live without. Fianally, we began our tour of Central Park. Central Park seems to have been there since the beginning and the city of New York was built around it. The fact is actually opposite. Central Park was not on the grid for city planning. However the leaders understood the need to have an outdoor space for people to relax and play. The refer to open spaces as the lungs of the city. So Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a plan for Central Park. The interesting part is that 10 percent of the land was there and 90 percent was brought in. They also worked around the huge boulders that could not be removed. This information is a good example of community planning and can be shared with when students are working on a community planning project. 
After touring Central Park we headed on our own to see Carnegie Hall to but a souvenir, but the gift shop was closed. Finally, we trekked back to Times Square to get a bit to eat and take in a show. Mary Poppins was a fun musical with great special effects. However the best time was after the show. The famous $10 purse table had appeared and it was so fun to watch people search for the perfect purse. Our night became even longer, when the train we wanted was not working and we had to find another stop to take us home. With that being said it was a long a short night.
I may be missing something, but I don’t see Emily Roebling named anywhere on either plaque. Only her husband, Washington Roebling, and father-in-law, John Roebling.