I grew up in Staten Island, ten minutes from the Outerbridge (no one ever calls it the Outerbridge Crossing), and have long known about the strangely on-point origin of its name. So there's a data point for you. Still, this made me chuckle.
This is the content I'm here for. And for the record, if you had asked me I would have confirmed this information (source: yes, my father while driving to the grandparents in Jersey).
I grew up in Staten Island, ten minutes from the Outerbridge (no one ever calls it the Outerbridge Crossing), and have long known about the strangely on-point origin of its name. So there's a data point for you. Still, this made me chuckle.
This is the content I'm here for. And for the record, if you had asked me I would have confirmed this information (source: yes, my father while driving to the grandparents in Jersey).