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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)

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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

His Brooklyn accent is undiminished by five decades of living 200-plus miles south of the Verrazano Bridge.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017

As for the Verrazano statue, the papers from 1909 were too waterlogged to read when the time capsule was opened.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2017

But members of the NYC Verrazano 10-13 Association - all retired Staten Island cops - lament today’s policing climate, even as they wax about the old days.

From Washington Times • Jul. 14, 2016

They travel south past the Wall Street skyscrapers, past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, past Bayonne, New Jersey, and the Bay Ridge Channel and under the Verrazano Bridge.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García