Triboro Bridge=RFK Bridge
behemoth
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i mean i still call it the Triboro. no way i'm gonna be like "hey so take the Ed Koch Bridge"
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/nyc/queensboro-bridge-to-be-renamed-for-ed-koch-20101209
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/nyc/queensboro-bridge-to-be-renamed-for-ed-koch-20101209
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no. i'm just saying. i rarely go to Queens.
Thank you.
Here in Austin, they've been trying to get us to call Town Lake...Lady Bird Lake, no can do.
Got to get to the airport somehow.
Touche, salesman.
the M60 bus
AKA the bus that never comes at rush hour.
I tried to ride my bike from the BX and got stopped by police.
Do you normally call it the Queensboro or the 59th Street Bridge? I always called it the 59th Street.
b/w
I Still Call It Shea.
Fiiddy-Ninef street bridge to Shea.
In Manhatt - take the 59th. In Queens - take the QBoro.
North of Polk Avenue? Are you serious?
That said I find it funny that one would take a stance on whether the Giants' Stadium is named after one soulless telecomm corp or another. You know they should have come correct and just named that sucker Willie Mays Stadium.
its always the 59th St bridge to me. my friend and I were saying they should pick a NYer's name at random to rename the bridge. like the Tia Tamaraz Bridge or the Rabbi Wertzberger Bridge
let me be clear: My preference for "Candlestick" is not on equal footing with my preference for "PacBell." It was just another example of a namechange I can't get with, for whatever reason.
PacBell has been called variously PacBell, ATT and SBC. I agree there's no real principled distinction to be drawn between these corporations (in contrast to the various name changes they've tried to foist on Candlestick, which will never stick as a matter of geographic pride), and the stadium is both relatively new AND in a "new" area (China Basin was sort of undeveloped until the last 15-20 years), so there was no real geographically/historically significant name being supplanted.. Still, for whatever reason, no true Giants fans I know call it anything other than PacBell.
NOPA is "north of the panhandle" or some isht. I think it's btwn Fell and Geary north/south, and bordered to the East by Divisadero (not sure where it ends going West). basically the eastern half of Western Addition.
I grew up in Queens and it was always the 59th.
I still call the Jackie Robinson Parkway the Interboro. No disrespect to the man, but it just doesn't sound right.
ha, that sign telling you about the rename will be there forever. Since I don't commute by car this is the most useless road in NY for me. It dumps you into the middle of the slowest moving traffic in Brooklyn. It's got some cool views though. And I call it the Jackie Robinson (moved here in 98)
So, Van Wick or Van Wike?
Wick. I've never heard anyone in my life say it the other way except for young eager traffic reporters who aren't originally from here. I work a couple blocks from it, right off Liberty, I should make a video of me pronouncing it Wike and seeing the reactions I get.
The Interboro is a death trap in the rain. I think I found a use for it on three occasions in 18 years of driving, each time it was a white knuckle journey.
Wonder who the BQE will eventually be named for?
also in philly kelly drive is still the east river drive.
Exactly! I recently saw a young eager NY1 traffic reporter break it down for the people that she had spoken to the van Wyck family that past weekend in the Hamptons and they were miffed that the whole of NYC pronounces their name wrong.
Roosevelt Ave will be called Roosy-belt in 20 years time. Can't fight Demographics.
You Brooklynites should check out the 1970 Beau Bridges vehicle
The Landlord, in which the trust-funded Bridges purchases a brownstone in the then-grimy Park Slope. Quite a lot has changed in the last 40 years.
Van Wick.
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway - Bloomberg Expressway?
My grandmother still refers to JFK as Idlewild Airport sometimes. She's old school like that.
"I Still Call It Idlewild". Someone could sell a grip of those for the silver set.
I still remember the first time I drove on the Interboro, I was going to meet up with a girl I met who lived in East New York. She was giving me directions (this was before GPS) and mentioned the Interboro parkway, I said to her "you serious? I don't know anyone who's ever driven on that, this should be fun". I was on the Grand Central about to make the move, feeling like the Lewis and Clark of Long Island. All of a sudden I felt like I was in a video game, like Spy Hunter or something but with better graphics. The shoulder disappeared and was replaced by what looked like a 40 foot cobblestone wall, there were suddenly only two lanes, oncoming traffic is separated by an open jersey barrier so every headlight is in your eyes, and EVERYONE was racing each other trying to take advantage of that rare moment in time that there wasn't a Mad Maxish accident backing up traffic for miles.
The other two times I drove on it I sat in traffic because of accidents.
Oh lord. I can see it being named after Giuliani before Bloomberg, I think he was from Brooklyn while Bloomberg is from Boston. Bloomberg's supposedly a subway guy too, he should slap his name on the 2nd Ave line.
If Billionaireberg took the change from down the back of his couch and used it to pay down the state deficit, I would be OK with naming every single bridge after him.