STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Numerous stories have been written in the Staten Island Advance about the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and its impact on this island, both positive and negative. When the ...

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 ...