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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 04:20:58 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. I predict it will be slanged into "The Cock Bridge".your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 05:41:16 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. At least they're not renaming the 59th Street Bridge. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Dec 8 06:42:22 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. LINKED.In City, a Bridge for Koch and a Tunnel for Carey |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 06:43:44 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. I'm sick of this crap. If they want to name something after Koch, maybe they should BUILD SOMETHING and then name that after him. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 07:08:16 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 06:43:44 2010. IAWTP. This is like regifting. Build something new.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Dec 8 07:10:37 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 06:43:44 2010. IAWTP. Though unless it's a really awesome something that they build, the Queensboro Bridge is a more significant structure and thus conveys more honor to the human recipient. Still doesn't make it right though. |
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Posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 07:38:14 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. You know where this is leading. The Brooklyn Bridge will eventually be renamed the Bloomberg Bridge.Change all the names you want. I still use the Triborough Bridge and the Interborough Parkway. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 07:47:47 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Dec 8 07:10:37 2010. They could name a new highway or a new subway after him. Andrew Culver still has a subway line named after him. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 07:51:06 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 07:38:14 2010. I use the Triborough Bridge and the Jackie Robinson Parkway. |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:07:36 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 05:41:16 2010. I call it the 59th Street Bridge and will continue to call it the 59th Street Bridge. |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:11:09 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. The popular name that true New Yorkers use is and always will be the "59th Street Bridge". Only tourists and foreigners will call it something elseAnd I still say Triborough Bridge for that other span that connects Queens to Manhattan! |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Dec 8 08:12:41 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:07:36 2010. I call it the 59th Street Bridge and will continue to call it the 59th Street Bridge.That's uncharacteristically Manhattocentrist of you. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Dec 8 08:15:28 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. Why are they naming bridges after people who are still living? |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Dec 8 08:21:49 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Dec 8 08:15:28 2010. For the same rason they are naming aircraft carriers after people who are still living. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Wed Dec 8 08:23:57 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Dec 8 08:15:28 2010. They name boats after people who are living. |
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Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Dec 8 08:24:40 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:11:09 2010. I've never called it the 59th Street Bridge in my life. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:33:08 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:11:09 2010. I've never heard anyone east of the East River call it anything but the Queensboro Bridge. I mean people in Brooklyn and Queens, LI, etc.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 08:46:58 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. I just told my uncle I am renaming the bridge in his mouth after myself...now I have a bridge, too! |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:47:29 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:33:08 2010. They must not have been born in NYC - everyone I know calls it the 59th Street Bridge |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:47:41 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 08:46:58 2010. LOL how cheeky of you.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:48:28 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Dec 8 08:24:40 2010. Then you are not a REAL New Yorker - REAL New Yorkers call it the 59th Street Bridge :) |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:52:32 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:47:29 2010. They were and are all under 45. Might have been common in a bygone era to call it 59th St.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 09:05:03 2010, in response to Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Doctor B on Wed Dec 8 04:19:08 2010. Well we sure had a nice party last year:May 31, 2009 QBB Centennial Parade The older woman is Lindenthal's daughter - 92 years old and proud to be there. No, Mr. Koch was nowhere in sight! |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:07:08 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Dec 8 08:12:41 2010. I agree. I have always and will continue to call it the Queensborough Bridge.I guess it's not the Brooklyn Bridge but the Chambers Street Bridge. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:07:27 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Dec 8 08:24:40 2010. Me neither. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:09:30 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:48:28 2010. And all true Scotsmen enjoy Haggis |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:11:08 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:52:32 2010. Good post. No one I know who didn't grow up in Manhattan calls it the 59th Street Bridge. Anyone who does I make fun of them by referring to other crossings by their Manhattan street. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:19:14 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:11:08 2010. Haha, I like photographing on the Delancey Street Bridge.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:23:29 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:19:14 2010. If I have to go from New Jersey to Queens, I find it annoying to have to drive crosstown from the 39th Street Tunnel to the 36th Street Tunnel so I just use the 179th Street Bridge. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:28:17 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:23:29 2010. I agree there. Then what, down the west side of the Bronx to the Cypress-Hoyt Avenue Bridge?your pal, Fred |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:28:27 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 08:52:32 2010. Might have been common in a bygone era to call it 59th St.I really love tradition and I hate all these newfangled changes... "59th St Bridge" was virtually in universal usage when I was growing up. When CB's were popular the truckers would call it the "Five-Niner Street Bridge"... Heck - I still say IRT, BMT and IND - I don't care what the current owners want me to call them :) |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:30:22 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:11:08 2010. The difference is that the other bridges were never popularly nicknamed by their streets. The "59th Street Bridge" was a name that was in popular usage - I didn't make it up |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:31:04 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:28:17 2010. Either that, the Brush Avenue-Parsons Blvd Bridge or the Locust Point Drive-Bell Boulevard Bridge. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:32:17 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:28:27 2010. Well, there's your explanation. People under 45 don't know what a CB radio is and don't know what the IND, IRT and BMT are unless they're railfans. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:32:58 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:30:22 2010. I'm not saying you did, it's that popular usage I'm making fun of. |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:36:50 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:32:17 2010. I think I am going to go back to calling it the Blackwell's Island Bridge :)BTW - I still say "Welfare Island" to describe the island that bridge crosses over - I rarely if ever accept renamings |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:37:35 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:28:27 2010. I wouldn't want you to part from tradition. I can't shake Shea Stadium from my vocabulary and I don't feel like it :Pyour pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:39:54 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:36:50 2010. LOL, I was just getting ready to post about Blackwell's but you beat me to it.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Easy on Wed Dec 8 09:43:14 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Osmosis Jones on Wed Dec 8 08:23:57 2010. Los Angeles named schools after Barack Obama and Al Gore. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:44:36 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by Easy on Wed Dec 8 09:43:14 2010. ::rolls eyes:: cue up the indoctrination posts.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:49:52 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 09:37:35 2010. Honestly I just can't call it "Citifield" - that just sounds so wrong |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:53:00 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:36:50 2010. Then why don't you call the island Minnahanock? And that island is located in the city of Nieuw Amsterdam. |
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Posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:57:42 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Dec 8 08:21:49 2010. That is a relatively recent phenomenon. Before 1980 ships were not named after living persons by tradition. That changed with the naming of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN70) |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Dec 8 10:44:35 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:11:09 2010. Right you are. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Dec 8 10:46:57 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:11:09 2010. I still say Triboro Bridge and Interboro Parkway and West Side Highway. None of this RFK or Jackie Robinson or Joe DiMaggio stuff for me. I don't know anyone who calls 6th Avenue in Manhattan "Avenue of the Americas".And it will still be the Queensboro or 59th Street Bridge to me. Simon & Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy" did not have Ed Koch in mind. |
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Posted by Dave on Wed Dec 8 10:59:33 2010, in response to Re: Queensboro Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 08:07:36 2010. IAWTP. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Dec 8 11:00:58 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Dec 8 10:46:57 2010. But Koch is pretty groovy tho.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Dave on Wed Dec 8 11:02:43 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Dec 8 09:09:30 2010. Get yer haggis! |
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Posted by Dave on Wed Dec 8 11:04:57 2010, in response to Re: 59th Street Bridge renamed, posted by BMTLines on Wed Dec 8 09:49:52 2010. Agreed!!! |
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