For the Record - May 29, 2008
Brooklyn Bridge: In Friday’s Section A, an Associated Press article about the Brooklyn Bridge erroneously paraphrased historian Ron Schweiger as calling Brooklyn a borough when the bridge opened in 1883. Brooklyn did not become a borough of New York City until 1898.
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