Climbing Brooklyn Bridge: Then and Now

#NYPD ESU Specialized Training School students conduct Rope Rescue Training on the #Brooklyn Bridge, part of their 8 month training program. pic.twitter.com/kxv1WgiLQa

— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) August 25, 2017

On Friday the NYPD's Emergency Services Unit conducted rope rescue training on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Interesting contrast to the scene on the bridge in 1914, when painters apparently thought nothing of climbing the cables and just hanging out on them.

Painters hang from suspended wires on the Brooklyn Bridge October 7, 1914 / 31 years after it first opened pic.twitter.com/8iQbMVxZHB

— History to Learn (@TheWorIdhistory) August 25, 2017

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