Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

[ ver-uh-zah-noh-nar-ohz brij, -uhd-zah- ]

noun

1. a suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City. 4,260-foot (1,298-meter) center span, the longest in North America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge¹

First recorded in 1955–60; Verrazzano ( def ), narrow ( def 19 ) (The Narrows)

Example Sentences

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, and is named after the first European explorer to sail into the New York Harbor.

From Seattle Times

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is demanding the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race generally held the first Sunday of each November, pay roughly $750,000 for use of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

From Seattle Times

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, for example, has massive barriers of concrete and rocks around the bases of the piers that support it.

From New York Times

Pickup was at 7, sometimes earlier, and then came the slog of traffic back over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to their home, a modest townhouse in the Huguenot neighborhood that Susan had purchased in 2004.

From New York Times

The U-Haul struck three people on mopeds, three people on bicycles, one person on an e-bike and one person who was on foot as the truck moved through a busy section of Brooklyn, just north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge along New York Harbor, police said.

From Seattle Times