The growing bi-partisan effort backing a local state lawmaker’s bill to rename “The Mario M. Cuomo” bridge with the “Tappan Zee” name has spawned new hope that the former governor’s name will be wiped from the bridge. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rockland Assemblyman, John McGowan, who picked up his bill from former Assemblyman Mike Lawler after he moved on to Congress, says he’s optimistic the Tappan Zee Bridge re-naming bill can gain support…
Hudson Valley State Senator James Skoufis became the first Democrat in the Senate to support the McGowan bill. District 99 Assemblyman, Democrat Chris Eachus, whose district covers Stony Point, would prefer to see the bridge become The Tappan Zee Bridge, and says he’s not a fan of naming things after politicians who simply did what they were hired to do…
A late-night, back-office deal with the former governor resulted in the new bridge being called “The Mario M. Cuomo Bridge,” but since no one much uses that, and calls it by the former bridge’s name, many feel renaming it to “The Tappan Zee Bridge” is more appropriate. Supporters hope the bill will pass both houses before this legislative term ends in June, and then get signed by the governor.