58 Years Ago Today, New York City's Longest, Most Polarizing Auto Bridge Opened

A bridge designed for carrying passenger cars in a major metro area tends to develop a certain unsavory mythos about itself, whether it's merited or not. In New York City, several bridges and tunnels have this reputation. But where you tend to expect a degree of chaos on the George Washington Bridge, another bridge in the city is even more polarizing. That bridge is the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge between the Bay Ridge neighborhood of ... (continue reading...)