Vice President Joe Biden was in Brooklyn Wednesday, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other New York officials, to mark the beginning of an intensive face lift to the 127 year-old Brooklyn Bridge. The work is expected to cost $500 million, $286 million of which is city money. About $30 million is from the federal stimulus bill. “This is a necessary, worthwhile investment,” The Daily News reported Biden saying. “Much of what the recovery act does is good in and of itself, unrelated to all the benefits it brings in terms of employment and spending money in the community,” he added.
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