The MTA has approved a $249 million project to protect and extend the life of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge’s suspension ...

In New England, the name Norumbega still features on streets and buildings. But did this shining indigenous community ever ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France.

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Legend has it that the Landfall community in Wilmington was named after the belief that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano made his first landfall in the New World in 1524.

Legend has it that the Landfall community in Wilmington was named after the belief that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano made his first landfall in the New World in 1524.

Legend has it that the Landfall community in Wilmington was named after the belief that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano made his first landfall in the New World in 1524.

By Jada Camille, Brooklyn Paper The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge reached its 60th anniversary on November 21, and the monumental feat of engineering remains an integral piece of New York City’s ...

By that point, the Wampanoag had been in contact with Europeans for over a century, including expeditions by the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524, the English Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 ...

However, the Italian Historical Society mounted a successful campaign to name it after Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor in 1524.

The bridge, named after European explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, opened in 1964 with just the upper deck. Within a few years, congestion became a pressing concern.