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HAC NY · 03-25-2011, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cokatie

Wait a minute!! The West Side Highway was renamed?!

I didn't even know that.

I didn't know either. I was driving in the city and on the navigation system it told me to use Joe DiMaggio Highway.

Sounds really dumb.

Coney · 03-25-2011, 09:52 PM

I'm sure Simon and Garfunkel are not feeling groovy about this. It really messes up their song.

WaltHowe · 03-26-2011, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Coney

I'm sure Simon and Garfunkel are not feeling groovy about this. It really messes up their song.

Hello Ed Koch, how's it going? I come to watch your flowers growing? Ain't you got no rhymes for me?

Nah.

Coney · 03-27-2011, 06:10 PM

It'll be the How Am I Doin' bridge.

tkak69 · 03-28-2011, 11:24 AM

Should be "Geraldine Ferraro Bridge"

LongIslandEddie · 03-28-2011, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Coney

I'm sure Simon and Garfunkel are not feeling groovy about this. It really messes up their song.

Bridge over polluted waters?

SobroGuy · 03-29-2011, 09:13 AM

I will always call the Triboro the Triboro, and the Queensboro bridge the Queensboro bridge. I wonder what they will try to rename on behalf of Bloomberg once he is gone? The toll plazas?

Fred314X · 03-29-2011, 10:35 AM

I agree with SobroGuy. Some names in this town are just not going to be recognized by the majority of people who live here. Hey, look at 6 Avenue in Manhattan--it was officially renamed Avenue of the Americas in 1964...and many (if not most) New Yorkers still know it as 6 Avenue. And you can ask people around Brooklyn for directions to Granville Payne Boulevard, but most of them won't have any idea what you're talking about. On the other hand, if you say you want to get to Pennsylvania Avenue--well, why didn't you say so in the first place?