The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects New York City’s Staten Island and Brooklyn.
It lies over the Narrows, a body of water between the Upper and Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge was completed in 1964 and is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the seventeenth longest in the world. The bridge was named after Giovanni da Verrazzano, a 16th-century explorer but was initially spelled with a single ‘z.’ In 2018, the name was changed to the correct spelling with double z’s. You can’t miss this either when exploring New York City by air. The bridge is a true masterpiece and an icon of the New York skyline.
