PHOTO by Bill Higgins

The Noble Maritime Collection is excited to present a four-part lecture series by Patricia M. Salmon called The Bridge and Staten Island: Unplanned Chaos and Disorder about the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. Admission is by donation, and visitors may attend one, a few, or all four parts of the series.

Join us for Part 3 on Sunday, July 21 at 12:30 PM. We will take a look at Brooklyn residents' fight to prevent the bridge and how Staten Islanders at first welcomed the changes they believed would result from its construction. We will also take an in-depth look at the building of “The Bridge,” the men who worked on “The Bridge,” and the men who died during its construction. Meanwhile what was happening to the borough as opening day approached? How would neighborhoods, retail businesses, school kids, and more be affected. Staten Island residents soon realized their lives would never be the same…