Celebrating 60 years since the opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Thursday marks exactly 60 years since the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened to much fanfare, connecting the borough of Staten Island to southern Brooklyn and permanently changing the fabric of New York City. CBS News New York's Hannah Kliger reports.
Verrazano Bridge is underrated, I don’t think people talk about enough how marvelous this construct is
The Verrazano Bridge really needs a bike lane and MTA should restart a subway line from Brooklyn to Staten Island.
MTA is always broke -- a subway seems unlikely, I suggest you invest in swimming lessons
The residents of Staten island already voted against a subway line decades ago lol so now they just got the ferry and a bridge .
A subway in Staten Island wouldn't be feasible. It would be too expensive. Also, the bridge doesn't need a bike lane. The S53, S79 SBS, and S93 have bike racks
@@Atrail_Mckinley4786so that means America is cheap and always makes lame expensive excuses but you see how quick we give Israel 🇮🇱 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 money and migrants … democrats and republicans do best
@BK_718 Even if there was a subway in Staten Island, it would most certainly see low ridership if the Staten Island Railway is anything to go by. Also, where would you build a line? Staten Island is a mix of suburban housing and marshland forest. There aren't many areas to even build subway stations
The bridge that was nicknamed the Guinea Gangplank by the natives, as it brought the Italians from Bay Ridge Brooklyn onto the Eastern shore of Staten Island. It transformed Staten Island from a very rural, predominantly Dutch-English-French population to a still ethnically segregated Italian, African-American and Dutch-English-French population.
@stevenmitchell1 I went out with a S.I. girl. The accent there is a mix of the old Brooklyn and Queens accents.
"Guinea Gangplank." That's a new one!
Nice bridge, but it costs a zillion dollars to cross it.
Insted of having a ferry come to Brooklyn, just build a Subway to the island. They already have a tunnel partially made on both sides. 95 st station has a bit of tunnel behind a wall near the end of the platform.
Well residents already voted against it 😂
It would simply be too expensive.
It would take a few months and a few dollars to build a dock on the Brooklyn side, it would take YEARS and billions of dollars to build tunnel!
@@koga115 the tunnel was started on owls head park Brooklyn to St. George ferry … 95 street is a dead end
A friend and myself were lucky enough to ride the first bus to travel from Brooklyn to Staten Island on opening day. The fare was 15 ¢ .
My Father and I got to watch this bridge being built and it was FREE!!!!It's a beauty of a bridge...They need to paint it a better color like the Golden Gate in SF.
That would be nice.
I've got a new roller and a garage full of old paint-and, I need a job!
In addition to being able/allowed to run across the bridge once a year, bikers get to ride across it once a year. On my dad's seventy's birthday he and I rode across as the final part of the five-borough-40 mile NYC "Bike Tour." Reaching the apex from the Brooklyn side was a significant challenge for my dad-we celebrated by holding hands (and my trying not to cry) as we costed down into Staten Island....A framed photo collage of him and I that memorable day adornes my wall.
I'm 50% Italian so I know what bridges should look like. Verrazano's does it right
Why would Italians know about bridges. Please explain.
Referencing a SNL skit. Tarenzanos
@@Mike-fu9hu You are a liar! Its Pizza Hut Bridge
The coin slots take pepperoni
To paraphrase a hilarious SNL skit.
Well my goodness, a video about NYC’s infrastructure that doesn’t lambast the Power Broker
John Braddock assisted in it's construction, He's known for being Cinderella Man and a pro boxer during the Depression and then a 27th Division soldier in WWII during the Pacific War
The mta said it was going to be free after it paid for itself ,… just a lie like congestive pricing
No, it is not 80,000,000 vehicles. It should be 79.999,999 vehicles a year.
Nice bridge ❤❤❤
This Bridge was Built for the World's Fair that was in 1964 along with the S.I EXpressway.I do nit remember the gentleman's name it was to help the rest of the other States to have easy access to the 2964 Worlds Fair off the now BELT PARKWAY.If ride it you see thw huge Globe of the Earth.
Not 2964. 1964 can not edit this
Robert Moses
Can these people just stop with the 9/11 references already, please 😭😭😭
I'm tired of hearing on every report that the ferry was the only way on and off the island. There are three automobile bridges that connect S.I. to N.J. All predate the Narrows Bridge.
True, but they needed to connect it to someplace that wasn't just Jersey at some point lol
Outerbridge, Goethal’s …… what’s the third???
@billkittleman9631 Bayonne which connects Bayonne NJ to Northern SI.
Got it … I was thinking purely in terms of P.A. crossings …… all those waterways/inlets in that immediate area make things all the more confusing
She clearly stated that before the bridge there was only a ferry connecting BROOKLYN to Staten Island.
Which is true. And is a simple concept to understand. One part out of 5 of NYC that wasn't connected to the rest of the city. One part that in order to drive to you had to leave the state.
Nobody is saying prior to this bridge Staten Island had no bridges that people couldn't use to drive on and off the island. SMH.
1964
60 years still under construction😂
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Can't you PLEASE fix up damm Closed-Capition which NOT fix up for deaf people?