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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, Staten Island and Brooklyn, 1963
Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Under Construction in 1963
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Shared by Redditor Perfect_Gas, this great vintage aerial photograph from 1963 shows the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge under construction in 1963, in color. When construction was finished in…

1962, Verrazano Bridge - Brooklyn Side.
Vintage Photograph Shows Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Under Construction in 1962
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Recently shared by Instagramer @ironworkerlife, this great vintage photograph from the winter of 1962 shows the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, as seen from the Bay Ridge Side…

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction. Shore Road and 97th Street, January 1964
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Shared by Redditor Perfect_Gas, this great vintage photograph from January 1964 shows the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge under construction, as seen from the Bay Ridge Side near Shore Road and…

Piece-by-piece: The construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
[VIDEO] Slideshow of Vintage 1960s Photographs Documents Construction of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened on Nov. 21, 1964, forever changing the landscape of Staten Island. (Wochit video by Stephanie Slepian)

May 17, 1963: A view of sleepy Staten Island and “The Bridge — the $325,000,000 Verrazano-Narrows span, which will join Fort Wadsworth on the island with Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn when it is completed.” The booming growth of the island chagrined some, who “gloomily forecast intolerable overcrowding of schools, stores, living space and roads. They are less sanguine than the enthusiasts about the solution of such problems as lack of sewers, of final mapping and paving of streets and of ‘City Hall red tape’ that discourages prospective industrial development.”
Vintage Aerial Photograph of Bay Ridge, Staten Island, and Verrazano Bridge Under Construction in 1963
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…