The sound of the bridge's lifting sirens also had to be lowered following complaints.

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The temptation to surge on First Avenue can come from the feeling of redemption that comes not only from the wall of sound one encounters on the avenue, but from surviving the desolation of the Queensboro Bridge.

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To the sound of the band drumming on empty gas cans, the procession arrived at the Brooklyn Bridge.

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