The Hudson River Bridge was the only thing most everyone agreed on, until it wasn’t.
Today commonly known as the GWB, the span was once known for exactly what it was. For four years, in blueprints, contracts and newspaper stories, it was the Hudson River Bridge.
That changed on Jan. 13, 1931, when the commissioners of the Port of New York Authority announced, without advance notice, that the soon-to-be-opened span would be called the George Washington Memorial Bridge…