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Verrazano

British  
/ verraˈtsaːno /

noun

  1. Giovanni da (dʒoˈvanni da). ?1485–?1528, Florentine navigator; the first European to sight what was to become New York (1524)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They said there are already two speed bumps that were added in spring 2020, just east of the Verrazano Bridge on State Highway 611, another main road into Assateague.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2021

If constructed, the memorial would have stood at what is now Fort Wadsworth National Park near the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

From Fox News Mar. 6, 2019

Thanks to ex-US Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato the Brooklyn-bound tolls on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge were permanently removed.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2016

As everyone knows, the five-borough marathon course begins at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and then heads north through Brooklyn and Queens.

From The New Yorker Nov. 2, 2016

Between Brooklyn and Manhattan, miles across the water, we saw the final curtain of New York City—the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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