New York’s Republican-controlled state Senate has voted to name the new Tappan Zee Bridge after the late Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo.
The Democrat-led Assembly adjourned its 2017 session without taking up the bill after Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan introduced the proposal Wednesday night shortly before his chamber adjourned.
Flanagan’s bill would name the new bridge currently under construction after Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s father, who died in 2015. The elder Cuomo was governor from 1983 through 1994. His son pushed to get a replacement bridge built.
The name of the current span linking Rockland and Westchester counties north of New York City is the Gov. Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge. Wilson was governor for a year starting in December 1973 after serving 14 years as lieutenant governor.
(AP)
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Wow, tremendous. How much will this cost the taxpayers?
at least they’re busy doing their work.
I never knew that the full name of the old Tappan Zee Bridge was the Malcolm Wilson TZB. So I don’t expect too many people to know the name of the new TZB includes Mario Cuomo.