Endorsed: Petitioners Push to Restore Tappan Zee Bridge’s Name

In the latest humiliation for Andrew Cuomo, an effort is gaining steam that would undo his decision to christen the reconstructed Tappan Zee Bridge after his late father.

A petition launched Nov. 23 — just weeks after Cuomo was soundly defeated in the New York City mayoral race — seeks to return the historic “Tappan Zee Bridge” moniker to the heavily-trafficked span, which runs 1,200 feet over the Hudson River, connecting Rockland and Westchester counties.

“For nearly six decades, New Yorkers knew this critical Hudson River crossing by its traditional name: Tappan Zee — a name that honored both the Indigenous Tappan people of the region and the Dutch heritage of early New York settlement (‘zee’ meaning sea),” reads the petition.

It claims then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s vain 2017 move to rename the span “bypassed longstanding naming norms and erased a meaningful part of the region’s cultural and linguistic history.”