New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to correct the spelling of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
“The Verrazzano Bridge is a vital transportation artery for millions of Staten Island and Brooklyn residents,” Cuomo said in a news release. “We are correcting this decades-old misspelling out of respect to the legacy of the explorer and to New York’s heritage.”
The city named the bridge, which opened in 1964, for Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who discovered New York Harbor in 1524. However, in naming the bridge for the explorer, officials misspelled his name and left out a z.
