BP MARKOWITZ TO HELP INDUCT “FAMILY TIES” CREATOR GARY DAVID GOLDBERG AND BROOKLYN BRIDGE’S ROEBLING FAMILY INTO BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN’S CELEBRITY PATH

6:00 P.M.
TUESDAY, MAY 27
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN
1000 WASHINGTON AVENUE
BROOKLYN

On Tuesday, May 27, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in inducting the latest Brooklynites to the Garden’s Celebrity Path: Gary David Goldberg, creator of the television series Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge and Spin City, and Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling and builders Washington and Emily Roebling. On hand to accept the honor on behalf of his family will be Kriss Roebling, John Roebling’s great great great grandson and Washington and Emily Roebling’s great great grandson.

Since 1985, more than 150 Brooklyn notables, including Walt Whitman, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason and Gil Hodges, have had their names embedded in an 18-inch by 24-inch concrete paver and decorated with a stylized leaf outline cast in bronze. Each paver also contains a bronze medallion of the Brooklyn Bridge, encircled by the phrase, “The Greatness of Brooklyn Is Its People.”

For more information on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrity Path, including a list of past honorees, visit www.bbg.org/exp/stroll/celebritypath.html