Even Dems want Mario Cuomo Bridge changed back to Tappan Zee

NY Post ^ | 08/11/2021 | Carl Campanile

[ChicagoConservative27]

Disgraced outgoing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stain is even affecting the legacy of his late father, three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Some Democrats are entertaining a push to remove Mario Cuomo’s name from the new $4 billion Hudson River crossing in Rockland/Westchester — an idea unthinkable just months ago.

It would be renamed with its original moniker — the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Queens Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, a Democratic socialist, has signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill to rename the bridge.

[Blue Highway]

How about DiBlow-zio? He has a black wife and didn’t she get $800k that went missing without a trace? That would qualify as a felon.

[oldvirginian]

“Let the name of Cuomo be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of New York. Let the name of Cuomo be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.”

So let it be written!
So let it be done!

[livius]

Especially since the Tappan Zee was named after an Indian group, the Tappan, that lived at this wide spot (zee, or sea, in Dutch) on the Hudson.

[3RIVRS]

Sucks when the Purge comes for you doesn’t it? Can’t happen to a nicer family.

[outofsalt]

"It derives its name from the Tappan Native American sub-tribe of the Delaware/Lenni Lenape, and the Dutch word zee, meaning a sea."

They "culturally appropriated" a Native American tribal name to honor a mob owned Italian. Hypocrisy on full display!

[Kenny500c]

Thanks I always thought it was a Dutch name. I lived nearby in Mahwah.

[PGR88]

I was reading up on Andrew Cuomo to remember all I could about him

In sum, he has been an arrogant political whore and princeling his entire career

- Never held a “real” job in his life

- While at HUD, contributed to the 2008 financial crisis by creating lax lending rules and pushing Fannie and Freddie to buy crap mortgages

- Married into the Kennedy Clan

- Used his position as NY AG for purely political, name-plate prosecutions

- Completely pro-abortion and had state buildings light themselves in pink when he pushed through the most pro-abortion laws in the country

- Asinine and political SAFE gun-control Act in the wake of Sandy Hook

- Gave nearly $1 billion to Tesla in exchange for what is about 400 jobs in upstate NY, to purchase some headlines

- Well know what he did during Covid

- Rapist and sexual pervert

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Tappan Zee predates the American Revolution. It even predates English settlers. It is a Dutch name , dating from when New York was New Amsterdam, and the Hudson Valley was all Dutch. Washington Irving used that era as a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", aka, "The Headless Horseman".

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

It’s too fun watching Democrats eat their own, and equally amusing to see the trigger.

Cuomo kills thousands of elderly nursing home residents with misguided COVID guidelines, but they run him out on a rail for allegedly groping someone(s).

[alstewartfan]

Ted Kennedy Bridge? Oh shoot, he was a white guy.....

[nascarnation]

OK, how about the Obama Overpass

[alstewartfan]

Got it! The Eric Garner Loosie Bridge in honor of the guy who was martyred over nicotine.

[ValleyofHope]

I and all my family and friends still call it the Tappan zee. You can’t go years calling something by one name, and then abruptly change it. Fredo’s f*#&$ing Father’s bridge has a nice ring to it though

[frank ballenger]

Got it! The Eric Garner Loosie Bridge in honor of the guy who was martyred over nicotine.

Never heard that story but I heard a fan say "I love Loosie."

[Laslo Fripp]

Same thing happened to me one night. It was spooky to be shown driving on the Hudson River. The new bridge is displaced a few hundred yards north of the old structure.

Maybe I should update my GPS? Nah, Ford wants $175 to do it.

[OA5599]

granted 99% of us still call it the Tappan Zee, just like we call it the Triborough bridge rather than the RFK Bridge.

I live walking distance to the Triborough Bridge. I've never heard anyone in my neighborhood call it the RFK Bridge. (Never heard anyone call the Queensboro Bridge the Ed Koch Bridge either.) It was dumb and a waste of money to rename those bridges.

Haven't used the new Tappan Zee Bridge yet, but I will never call it the Cuomo Bridge. Not even Wikipedia will call it that.

[T.B. Yoits]

Why not name the bridge after the victims of ‘Nursing Home Killer’ (NHK) Cuomo instead of Fredo’s father?

[frank ballenger]

Ted Kennedy Bridge? Oh shoot, he was a white guy.....

Honorary saint, though.

For his bridge for anyone who drowns after driving off the bridge their heirs will get $500 off the dredging fee as they use sonar and cables to locate and bring up the corpse.

[frank ballenger]

Excellent. Great idea.
The country needs minds like ours.

[The Antiyuppie]

His name should be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks…

…so as not to remind the public of this era on a daily basis.