Rename the Williamsburg Bridge After Sonny Rollins

Mr. Rothenberg is a jazz composer and performer who teaches at the New School.

Sonny Rollins died at 95 on Memorial Day. He was New York City born and bred, raised in Harlem, where W.E.B. Du Bois was his neighbor, and later lived on the Lower East Side. Along with fellow jazz giants like Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln and Charles Mingus, Mr. Rollins was a leader in the fight for Black empowerment in the 1950s. By 1959, Mr. Rollins, not yet 30 years old, was a renowned tenor saxophonist and........

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