The tech worker cleaning condoms and old socks off the Brooklyn Bridge: ‘People have no shame’

It took Ellen Baum about 16 hours to finish clearing one section of hair ties, condoms and tissues woven into the fencing On a blisteringly cold day earlier this month, Ellen Baum was not in the best mood as she walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to meet some friends in Manhattan. “I had read particularly horrible news that morning about, you know, the general state of the world,” said Baum, who is 37 and works in tech. And then there was the garbage. Baum stared at the dirty tissues, hair tie...

By Alaina Demopoulos