A new name for the Third Avenue Bridge

The Third Avenue Bridge may be getting a new name.A group of New York City Primary Election candidates have teamed up to in an effort to rename the bridge – which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, running over the Harlem River – as the Olga Méndez Bridge. Mendéz served in the New York State Senate from 1978 to 2004, where she represented East Harlem and part of the Bronx. She was the first Puerto Rican woman to serve not only in the New York government, bu