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Page 11, May 17. 1973. PHOENIXof the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn side, hrom the Paterson Collection, loaned by Dick Ryan. Photo Oourtesy South Street Seaport Museum.photographs on the Manhattan side will be linked to events planned in the eveNing at the Long Island Historical Society, in Brooklyn, by a guided walk across the bridge. At 6 p.m..poets Muriel Rukeyser, Stanley Kunitz and James Wright will read from the works of Whitman and Crane on the deck of the %u201c W avertree%u201d , an antique sailing ship moored at South St. Seaport. In the nearby Print Gallery, 207 Water St., an exhibit of old photos, lithos and paintings of the Bridge will be on display.Following the reading, Alan Trachtenberg, Yale professor and author of %u201c The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol%u201d will lead the walking tour across the Bridge. The tour will stop at the Long Island Historical Society at 128 Pierrepont St., to view a private exhibition which features Currier and Ives%u2019s print of a Brooklyn Bridge that never was (one with Romanesque arches).The tour will end at the foot of Pierrepont St., in the Promenade, with another poetry reading by Galway Kinnell, Harvey Shapiro and Paul Zweig at about the same time the city%u2019s fireworks display is set to go off.A n r tf L n r n v V ii K i t o n lo K f o f m r t t l i nBrooklyn Bridge will be on display at the Brooklyn Heights Library, 280 Cadman PI. West and at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, 825 Madison Ave., Manhattan.On Thursday, May 24, the Society of Old Brooklynites will unveil a memorial monolithhonoring the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, Col. Washington A. Roebling, at noon near the entrance to the Supreme Court Building on the Cadman Plaza lawn.The Society, which restricts membership to Brooklynites living in the borough for at least 26 years, launched an effort last fall to raise the necessary funds to commission and erect the7-foot granite monument bearing a bronze commemorative plaque.Brooklyn notables, including Boro President Leone, Downtown Brooklyn Development Association President Donald Moore and Old Brooklynite President Dr. Foelly Crane, and a band will be on hand for the hourlong ceremonies on the Civic Center lawn Thursday.LIU Brooklyn Center will also salute the Brooklyn Bridge Thursday at LIU%u2019s annual Charter Day Luncheon scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. in the faculty dining room of the school%u2019s Humanities Building. Sebastian Leone is honorary chairman of the LIU luncheon which will also honor the rehabilitation of the Fiatbush Ave.- Fulton St. area in DowntownD %u00abtri/> lrlirm -v / m , , . . .The rehabilitation of Downtown Brooklyn, pari of the broader Brooklyn renaissance now emerging, should be full blown by the 100th year of the Great Bridge. At 90, the Bridge has much to hope for and Brooklyn has even more to live for.SEE SCHEDULEPAGE TWELVEA modern-day view of the Brooklyn pier from the Bridge.