The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge's name was originally spelled with one "z". The "" name dates to 1960 when Governor Rockefeller had signed the bill authorizing the bridge's name as such. A bill to formally change the bridge's name to the variant with two "z"s was introduced by college student Robert Nash in 2016, but stalled the next year, as did another bill in early 2018. The New York State Senate voted to change the name of the bridge in June 2018, and the name change was officially signed into law that October.