STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Fifty years ago, an exceptionally large American flag proudly flew across the cables on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence — and it could return next year.
A Staten Island college student, as well as several elected officials in the borough, are pushing for a flag to hang across the same bridge, which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn, for the 250th anniversary next year.
“They did it for the bicentennial, why not do it again?” asked Alesio Bejleri, a 21-year-old student at the College of Staten Island, Willowbrook.
In 1976, a 70,000-square-foot flag broke the record for the largest American flag. It was originally planned to be hung on the bridge to celebrate ships arriving in New York on the Fourth of July…