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    Queensboro Bridge to Be Renamed for Ed Koch | NBC New York

    Mayor Bloomberg is planning to announce today that the Queensboro Bridge will be renamed after former Mayor Ed Koch, who turns 86 this month.

    “It’s a workhorse bridge,” Koch said to the New York Times. “And that’s what I am, I’m a workhorse. Always have been. I feel very compatible with it.”

    Along with the101-year-old bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel will also be renamed after former Governor Hugh L. Carey, which is something that Koch approves of.

    “I have been trying for years to get something named for Hugh Carey,” Mr. Koch said. “I think he’s the greatest governor of the modern era.”

    The renaming process still has to be approved by the city council, but it has the support of Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who told the Times that Koch “deserves way more than a street”.

    The city plans to raise the money to pay for the new road signs privately. Renaming the Triborough Bridge to the Robert F. Kennedy bridge cost the city almost $4 million.

    Still, Koch praised the move, saying, “It’s not soaring, beautiful, handsome, like the George Washington or the Verrazano,” he said. “It’s rugged, it’s hard working — and that’s me.”
    Lawren
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  • #2
    I like Ed Koch - and that is a very nice tribute to him....the consummate New Yorker
    Pat
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    • #3
      Wast of Money to me, I Like Ed Koch, but each politition gets in and remame bridges, tunnels, it cost money, Plus its the fiftynine street Bridge anyway, I go in Manhattan, friends ask do you go thru the midtown tunnel or fifty nine street bridge,I always say fiftynine street bridge,I know no one that calls it Queensboro other than out of towners,and they don't use it and less they Have to meet Big Frank,then we all know they have to go to queens,and if they drive then they can use the: "Fiftynine Street Bridge"
      (big Frank don't like Manhattan)

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      • #4
        I love Ed Koch. But that other bridge will always be the Tri-boro (or the Tribe, as I fondly call it). And I cannot believe the money spent to change it, that's just stupid.

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        • #5
          I hate when they change the name after so many years. I am kust getting used to the Jackie Robinson pkwy from the Interboro. With The amount of money it is costing they could have used it some place else.
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