{"id":8,"date":"2023-03-11T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/?p=8"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:57:18","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/2023\/03\/11\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So just who was Major Deegan and why does he get an expressway? What did Hutchinson do to merit a parkway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in New York City (Brooklyn, to be precise), you heard place names so often they just became background noise. Like lyrics in many songs, I heard the words but didn&#8217;t listen to the meaning behind the words. The Holland Tunnel was clearly a reference to the city&#8217;s historical connection to New Amsterdam. Shea Stadium was just a name. And obviously, the Outerbridge Crossing was one of the outer bridges connecting New York to the rest of the world. It was when I found that the Outerbridge Crossing was named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, my world view changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some place names I feel are to famous\/obvious. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>George Washington&nbsp;Bridge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alexander Hamilton Bridge&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verrazano&nbsp;Bridge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacky Robinson&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hugh Carey&nbsp;Tunnel (which will forever really be the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert Moses Beach&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ed Koch&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RFK&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But others, like the list on the side (and on my <a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/working-list\/\">Working List<\/a>), have been taken for granted and their story should be told. Feel free to comment below with other place names I should research or provide stories of your own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just who was Major Deegan and why does he get an expressway? What did Hutchinson do to merit a parkway? Growing up in New York City (Brooklyn, to be precise), you heard place names so often they just became background noise. Like lyrics in many songs, I heard the words but didn&#8217;t listen to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/2023\/03\/11\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/placenames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}