Triborough

Correct me if I'm wrong—and no doubt some reader will—but my recollection is that the signage for the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge , better known as the Triborough, all but forgets that noble span's former name.

City's Signs of the Times Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

New York state's Conference of Mayors, school districts and other groups have urged Mr. Cuomo to scrap or at least scale back what's known as the Triborough Amendment.

Triborough Labor Law Likely to Survive Jacob Gershman 2012

Wednesday evening at Pier 60, the dedication of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly known as the Triborough!) attracted a long list of high-profile guests — Sarah Jessica Parker, Carl Bernstein, Matt Dillon, not to mention gaggles of politicians and Kennedys.

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A clause in the state labor law known as the Triborough Amendment allows contract provisions for all workers to proceed until a new contract is reached.

NYT > Home Page 2011

A 30-year-old statute known as the Triborough Amendment tilts the bargaining table heavily in favor of public employees and heavily against management - which is to say, against taxpayers.

NYDN Rss Bill Hammond 2012

Seventeen months after state lawmakers officially changed the name of the three-bridge complex that connects Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx from the descriptive "Triborough" to the honorific "

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Indeed, the Triborough Bridge, now renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, was literally begun on October 29, 1929, the day of the stock market crash; work was suspended until financing was rescued by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Robert Kuttner: From Depression to Public Inspiration Robert Kuttner 2011

I also crossed the Triborough Bridge (completed 1936) and drove through the blizzard along a chain of the Northeast's loveliest highways, the Hutchinson River (1937), Merritt (1940), and Wilbur Cross parkways (1949).

Robert Kuttner: From Depression to Public Inspiration Robert Kuttner 2011

Indeed, the Triborough Bridge, now renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, was literally begun on October 29, 1929, the day of the stock market crash; work was suspended until financing was rescued by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Robert Kuttner: From Depression to Public Inspiration Robert Kuttner 2011

But even more impressively, his 33rd-floor terrace overlooks the East River, with an attractive little tree-filled island in the middle of it called Mill Rock Island, and the Triborough Bridge in the near distance.

Wading Into a Waste Case Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011