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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Numerous stories have been written in the Staten Island Advance about the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and its impact on this island, both positive and negative.
When the bridge opened in 1964, the toll was fifty cents. Today, it costs $6.94 with an E-ZPass (NYCSC) or $11.
19 for Tolls by Mail/Non-NYCSC E-ZPass. The top photo with local historian Patricia Salmon and her brother Frank, shows a clear view during the bridge’s construction in 1963, courtesy of the Salmon family, below is the same view captured on April 7, 2025. The same view as in 1963, in 2025 from Fort Wadsworth of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
(Advance/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel) Staten Island Advance.
