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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge: what's nearby, how to get there and when to go · 2026
Drivers commuting between Brooklyn and Staten Island face the sole vehicular crossing over the Narrows, shaping daily regional road transit.
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Coney Island
Brooklyn College- Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Basilica of Regina Pacis
- Temple Beth El of Borough Park
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Marine Park
- Sunset Park
- Trump Village
- 50th Street
- 55th Street
- 71st Street
- 79th Street
- Astroland
- Avenue I
- Avenue J
- Avenue M
- Avenue N
- Avenue P station
- Avenue U
- Avenue X
- Bay 50th Street
- Bay Parkway
- Canarsie – Rockaway Parkway
- Coney Island Cyclone
- Coney Island Light
- Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue
- Ditmas Avenue station
- Dreamland
- East 105th Street station
- Elephantine Colossus
- Fort Hamilton
- Fort Hamilton Parkway
- Fort Tilden
- Kings Highway
- Luna Park
- Maimonides Park
- Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
- Neck Road
- Neptune Avenue
- New York Aquarium
- Ocean Parkway
- Parachute Jump
- Sheepshead Bay station
- Steeplechase Park
- West Eighth Street – New York Aquarium
- Wonder Wheel
About the place
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge provides the only physical link across the tidal strait.
The suspension structure joins Brooklyn to Staten Island across the Narrows. It carries Interstate traffic across a double-deck roadbed that handles vehicular movement between the boroughs. The span carries vehicular lanes over both decks to accommodate interstate drivers bypassing Manhattan.
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Early proposals for the crossing emerged under the name Liberty Bridge before public officials blocked private development schemes. Alternative blueprints included vehicular tubes and subway tracks from Bay Ridge toward Staten Island, though lack of municipal funding halted initial excavation.
Associations
- Interstate 278
- The Narrows
- Bay Ridge disruption
Facts
- The span forms the only fixed crossing spanning the Narrows.
- The bridge carries Interstate 278 across double-deck levels between Brooklyn and Staten Island.
- Giovanni da Verrazzano entered New York Harbor as an explorer before the span took his name.
- Fiorello H. La Guardia blocked an early private proposal called the Liberty Bridge.
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in pictures6 photos
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