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MTA officials are considering yet another hike on the Verrazano Bridge that would make it one of the highest fees for a crossing in the country. The proposal will be voted on by the MTA board in ...
Officers Save Boy With Seat Belt Wrapped Around His Neck On Verrazano Bridge Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Officer Edward Grimm and Officer Lee Simons got to the vehicle and saw little Arthur ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Building a Verrazano-Narrows Bridge pathway for bicycle and pedestrian use would cost an estimated $300 million to $400 million, according to early proposals shown to the ...
The New York City Police Department and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority officers (heroes all) recently talked to a 46-year-old man perched on a ledge on the Verrazano Bridge and convinced ...
An off-duty NYPD officer on his way to work on Thursday night pulled over on the Verrazano Bridge and helped bring a man making an apparent suicide attempt to safety. Shortly after 9 p.m. on ...
A man threatening to take his life by jumping off the Verrazano Bridge was rescued by three Emergency Services officers on Monday. The man stopped his Dodge Caravan on the Brooklyn bound side of ...
When it finally opened, 50 years ago this month, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge—honoring the 16th-century Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, though not to the extent of spelling his name ...
An act of high-flying hijinks – and the absence of local politicians – clouded the 50th anniversary of the Verrazano Bridge. The Friday celebration of the span linking Staten Island and ...
The Internet is like the Verrazano Bridge in that there are moves afoot – ill-advised moves — to change how each entity is represented through the written word. In the case of the Internet ...
A construction worker on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge fell 25 feet from an upper deck on Monday, shattering both his legs, cops said. The worker was on the Brooklyn side of the bridge when he fell ...