The Bridge That Never Closed

On October 24, 1964, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Engineers designed it to last — not decades, but centuries. Sixty years later, 190,000 vehicles cross it daily. It has weathered nor'easters, hurricanes, blizzards, and the slow corrosion of salt air. The towers were built four inches farther apart at the top than at the bottom to account for the curvature of the earth.…