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The name had been spelled with one 'Z', even though it should have had two to reflect the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who discovered New York harbor in 1524.

The historic mistake — a misspelling of Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano’s name — has been in place since 1964.

A mistake that caused the name of New York’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to be misspelled for more than 50 years has finally been corrected.

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which opened in 1964 to connect Brooklyn with Staten Island, is named after Florentine Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. The explorer had two Z's in his last name.