Open Thread

Sue the bastard, Snappy!!!!!!!

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

so the verizanno bridge is……..?

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.