Brooklyn Bridge In 1950, the streetcars also stopped running, and the bridge was rebuilt to carry six lanes of automobile traffic. The Brooklyn Bridge is accessible to vehicles from the Brooklyn entrances of Tillary/Adams Streets, Sands/Pearl Streets, and Exit 28B of the eastbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Manhattan, cars can enter from either direction of the FDR Drive, Park Row, Chambers/Centre Streets, and Pearl/Frankfort Streets. Pedestrian and bicycle access to the bridge from the Brooklyn side is from either Tillary/Adams Streets (in between the vehicular entrance/exit) or a staircase on Prospect Street between Cadman Plaza East and West. In Manhattan, the pedestrian walkway
Culture of Brooklyn the borough, flocking to world-class cinemas like BAM. After Radio City Music Hall, Brooklyn Technical High School houses the second largest auditorium in New York City with seating capacity of over 3,000. Brooklyn has been the setting for a variety of television shows, including the 1950s era "Honeymooners" starring Jackie Gleason, and the 1970s sitcom, "Welcome Back, Kotter", starring Gabe Kaplan. In the 1980s, "The Cosby Show" was set in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone. In the 1990s, "Brooklyn Bridge" (about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s) starring Marion Ross aired on CBS. There are a