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The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge was replaced (and destroyed in 2017). The current bridge has always been called the Mario Cuomo Bridge. I don't like the guy anymore than it seems the rest of you do, but no matter what the signs on the highway say it's name is what it is. Now let's argue about the Twin Bridges!
 
We live in NJ few miles from the NYS border. We can tell when we cross into NYS because the 35mph speed limit goes to 30mph and the number of pot holes increases 10 fold.
 
x10003q said:
We live in NJ few miles from the NYS border. We can tell when we cross into NYS because the 35mph speed limit goes to 30mph and the number of pot holes increases 10 fold.
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NY does that on purpose to discourage us Jersey boyz from comin in! ;)
 
I don't know if I've traveled that root since I lived in New Rochelle some thirty something years ago... do they really not call it the tap anymore?
 
Locals, myself included still refer to it as the Tap, really not a political thing as much as a sense of place and identity. That stretch of river since the dutch settlement days was referred to as the Tappan Zee notating the widest segment of the Hudson. My understanding is the term is a mashup of Dutch and native Lenape language even predating European settlement. There are definitely a few on one particular side of the political spectrum who view it as a political thing but the rejection truly seems bi-partisan.
 
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