#51238733 / gettyimages.com. Fifty years ago today, there was a ceremony to mark the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, for the first time connecting all five boroughs of the city via roadways.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Brooklyn residents are reinvigorating a request to bring back two-way tolling on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge as a way to reduce congestion in that borough. In 1986, then ...

Rebecca Solnit was standing in the middle of Jamaica Bay. She had walked down from the Upper West Side, past the Twin Towers and over the Verrazano Bridge, carefully stepping over the highways and ...

As the Verrazano Bridge rings in its 50th birthday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is working on two major projects to update its aging roadway and improve general traffic flow to and ...

FDNY Capt. Louis Modafferi, missing since the Twin Towers collapsed, ... He said Modafferi was headed toward the Verrazano Bridge en route to a second job on the morning of Sept. 11, ...