SEND_PUNS_PLZ t1_iudjecb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:50 PM

It sounds like they just ran outerbridge names

yourshaddow3 t1_iuecigq wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:09 PM

👏

Farscape_rocked t1_iudc9au wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:57 PM

Talking of naming stuff in an unexpected way, MySQL is named after the daughter of one of its creators, My.

towhomnottowho t1_iuddp1x wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:08 PM

Where does the “despite” part of this come in?

bucko_fazoo t1_iudeaov wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:12 PM

despite the possible perception it is named for its relative location (which would coincidentally happen to be accurate), it is actually named after a person.

towhomnottowho t1_iudm5fl wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Thanks!

Pkmatrix0079 t1_iudhxae wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:39 PM

Speaking as someone from the area, almost everyone thinks the bridge is named "Outerbridge Crossing" because it is New York City's outermost bridge. That it's actually named after a person named Outerbridge is usually a shock whenever it gets brought up. It's just a coincidence that it's turned out to be also the city's outermost bridge.

CharlieWormhat t1_iueyng5 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:34 PM

It's like an ice cream man named Cone

towhomnottowho t1_iudm6nc wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Makes sense. Thank you.

lad_astro t1_iufi3g7 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:48 PM

A bit like sideburns. It seems like a pretty sensible name to give them, but they are in fact named after an American Civil War general called Ambrose Burnside

ItsMeSatan t1_iufohr6 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:34 PM

Outerbridge, you genius

cheesefondue t1_iugc13b wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:38 AM

They called it outerbridge crossing?! Instead of… well, you know

GenErik t1_iuggcvx wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:14 AM

We have a Story Bridge, which I thought was very poetic until I found out it was named after some dude named Story.

threedogcircus t1_iudf7i5 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:19 PM

Hah!

TIL that the despite being the outermost bridge in NYC and the southernmost bridge in the whole state of NY, the Outerbridge Crossing in NYC is actually named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the Port of New York Authority.

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