A road sign on Staten Island is causing some spelling confusion, switching around two letters and directing drivers to the “Geothals” Bridge, instead of the Goethals Bridge.
The misspelling on the sign, on the New Jersey-bound lanes of the Staten Island Expressway, was noted recently on social media.
It raised recollections of another storied misspelling, of New York City’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which for more than 50 years was spelled wrongly with only one “z.”
New York’s state Legislature voted in 2018 to fix that mistake, and the signs with the incorrectly spelled version are in the process of being replaced.
The state Department of Transportation said the Goethals Bridge mistake would be fixed in the next few days by the contractor responsible for the original error.
(AP)
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How could such a mistake happen? He didn’t double check??
What do you expect from NY school education
There is a story where a horse died on Kosciuszko Street, the police man could not spell the name and move it over to another street.
Typical government incompetent bureaucracy.
I’ve seen worse spelling errors right here on YWN.
Who said it’s spelled wrong? And who said that 2+2+4? maybe it equals 5? Next thing we’ll be hearing here is that potato head is a male!!!!!
The signs have misspelled the Froggs Neck Bridge for years.
It’s the third, forth and fifth (if you count the two spans) in or adjacent to NYC named for a Washington.
Eugenius Outerbridge would be proud.
BTW Beverl/e/y Rd and the two subway stations associated with it are spelled with and without the third “e” in various places.
‘fourth’ (Autocorrected before pasted in)