Coming Together
Who says politicians can't cooperate?
In June of 2018, virtually overnight, the Tappan Zee Bridge which spans the Hudson River from Nyack, NY to Tarrytown, NY was renamed the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Mario Cuomo was, of course, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s father. The suddenness of the name change surprised and angered many New York residents, who found the maneuver galling even for politics, and moreover even for New York State politics. That’s saying something.
With a little digging it was found that Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, had arranged to give $10M in taxpayer funds to expand a Republican-backed museum in Orange County. That evidently purchased the support necessary for a brisk rechristening of the span. (from an article by Peter Earle who wants to rename the bridge, “New York State Nursing Home Covid Victims Memorial Bridge.”)
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