Do You Know Which Bridge In NYC Has Been Spelled Wrong For 52 Years?

Yago Martinez-Falero Hein
1 min readJun 11, 2016

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Your whole life was literally a lie… Not a big one, but still.

Robert Nash a Dyker Heights activist has aske the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to add another Z to the Verrazano Bridge so it matches the name of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano to whom the bridge is named after. He started a petition you can sign it here if you are a fan of the 16th century Florentine explorer, a grammar Nazi, or just a seeker of justice.

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Originally published at secretnyc.co.

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Yago Martinez-Falero Hein
Yago Martinez-Falero Hein

Written by Yago Martinez-Falero Hein

👨🏼‍💻 Entrepreneur and software engeneer // Former employee at TheFamily.co // 👨🏼‍🎓 Holberton School & Reverse Origins

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