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You see the name Verrazzano was considered too long and too difficult to spell and pronounce.
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They whizzed over the Verrazzano Bridge, with the Manhattan skyline shrouded in fog off to the right.
Road Trip: ‘For You, Obama!’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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We drove across the wide span of the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, which carried us up into that hungry sky, over the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
"If looks could kill, they probably will..." greygirlbeast 2009
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They whizzed over the Verrazzano Bridge, with the Manhattan skyline shrouded in fog off to the right.
Road Trip: ‘For You, Obama!’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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On or about April 17, 1524 Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered what is now New York Harbor.
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One "z" or two, the bridge almost wasn't named for Verrazzano at all.
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Some wanted to call the span the Narrows Bridge, others the Brooklyn-Staten Island Bridge, while Italian cultural groups pushed for Verrazzano.
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Elephants, Lions and Leopards Julianne Douglas 2009
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The monument honoring Verrazzano in the city's Battery Park has two "z's" cast in bronze.
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Could it be that when the bridge was opened on November 21, 1964 no one knew how to spell Verrazzano?
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