Ok everybody…it’s time for me to go. Keep up the good work for Team OT and I’ll be with you all in spirit. Luv ya like a fat kid loves cake 🙂 Smooches!
I’m going to give this one to Dirty Hipster, who was the first with the most accurate answer. The Williamsburg Bridge was known as The Jews’ Highway soon after it was built. It was because it connected the LES (heavily Jewish at the time) with sourthern Williamsburg, which developed rapidly after the bridge opened up as an extension of the LES, both in terms of the building style and the demographics. The LES and sourthern Willaimsburg were virually a single neighborhood, connected by the bridge. Folks walked over it to go back and forth between the areas, visiting relatives, friends, etc. Hence the name.
yay – i rule!!
welcome back benson!
Sue the bastard, Snappy!!!!!!!
Ok everybody…it’s time for me to go. Keep up the good work for Team OT and I’ll be with you all in spirit. Luv ya like a fat kid loves cake 🙂 Smooches!
snappy: per Biff’s response above, DH & I need to post a ton more b4 getting that PLUSA status. DH is probably a few thousand posts closer than me
m4l you probably built your own computer and dh is using an old TRS 80 just to be trendy. Get a corporate T1 line. 🙂
so the verizanno bridge is……..?
DH, you are a PLUSA too!!!
I’m going to give this one to Dirty Hipster, who was the first with the most accurate answer. The Williamsburg Bridge was known as The Jews’ Highway soon after it was built. It was because it connected the LES (heavily Jewish at the time) with sourthern Williamsburg, which developed rapidly after the bridge opened up as an extension of the LES, both in terms of the building style and the demographics. The LES and sourthern Willaimsburg were virually a single neighborhood, connected by the bridge. Folks walked over it to go back and forth between the areas, visiting relatives, friends, etc. Hence the name.
Dave, Lexis/Nexis is crap! Everyone knows that! It’s all about Westlaw baby 🙂