To be a man, Be a non-conformist, Nothing's sacred as the integrity of your own mind. A contractor working on the Throgs Neck Bridge was hospitalized Friday after he slipped off a ladder and plunged 20 feet, officials said. as you can see, my simple desire to understand the why and how of things fills my brain with trivia. "It may be because when the Dutch people arrived in New Netherland, this island had many rabbits, so they named it 'Konijn Island', which became 'Coney Island', using the archaic term for rabbit in English." " The name cony was once applied to the rabbit and is still sometimes used in the fur business to indicate rabbit fur" So research found that the Dutch named it that because it was overrun with rabbits. I was curious how Coney Island got its name. Laura Ewing Outerbridge was the one who imported the lawn game tennis to the United States from Bermuda. He is known for inventing a fiberboard known as "Homosoate Board"Īnd a lesser known fact is that his sister. a NYC engineer and head of the Port Authority. I always thought maybe it had something to do with a bridge that was on the "outer part" or something.lol So that made me wonder about the "Outerbridge Crossing Bridge" from Perth Amboy to Staten Island.
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See that !!: Chief engineer of the Panama Canal. A motorcyclist caught driving with a suspended license at the Bronx-side entrance to the Throgs Neck Bridge decided to jump rather than face arrest yesterday. he " was a United States Army General and civil engineer, best known for his administration and supervision of the construction and the opening of the Panama Canal. Officer Carl quickly responded to investigate a nearby residence. 20, meaning this deer was illegally taken. The Southern Zone firearms season opened Nov. 7, ECO Carl received a report of a gunshot and a hunter driving an ATV to the area where the shot was heard to retrieve a deer. Researching that I found out it was in honor of George Washington Goethals. Jumping the Gun to Shotgun Season(Orange County) On Nov. Out of curiosity I wondered why it was named "Goethals"?
It was very heroic.Some trivia I come across comes out of my burning desire to find answers to everyday questions.įor example, near Newark airport the Goethals bridge goes from Elizabeth, NJ to Staten Island, NY Found inside Dont you know youre talking to a man who drove ninety miles to a. Three or four times as funny as most novels.The New Yorker Praise for The Water-Method Man. One cop tells the Post, " scaled the wall and dropped about 10 feet into calf-high water. Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumpers tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irvings trademark. Sanchez was then taken to Jacobi Hospital suffering from hypothermia. He apprehended Sanchez in the water, and arrested him for driving with a suspended license, obstruction and resisting arrest. Sanchez landed in shallow water-fortunately for him, the tide was high, or he would have landed on the rocky shoreline-and Luce, a regular John McClane, gave chase.
First he sped away from Luce, then abandoned his motorcycle, ran across six lanes of traffic, climbed over the wall and jumped about 30 feet!Īnd he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling Luce. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror inflicted by Islamic terrorists and the heroism displayed by ordinary Americans forced onto the frontlines of a sudden new war. The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real time. Rocky Sanchez, 43, has had his license suspended 17 times, and when MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officer Charles Luce pulled him over by the toll plaza, Sanchez wasn't about to go down without a fight. 9/11: A Visual History of 20 Years of War. A motorcyclist caught driving with a suspended license at the Bronx-side entrance to the Throgs Neck Bridge decided to jump rather than face arrest yesterday.
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