A Century of Toll Free East River Bridges

A period tollbooth circa 1911 was erected near the Williamsburg Bridge on Tuesday to symbolically collect, for the first time in a century, tolls from two antique automobiles and a bicycle in order to raise awareness of the estimated $31 billion lost in East River tolls.
A Century of Toll Free East River Bridges
ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE: A 1924 Star Open Touring Car, owned by Antique Automobile Association of Brooklyn President Lenny Shiller, at a tollbooth set up on the Williamsburg Bridge on Tuesday. Amal Chen/The Epoch Times
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE: A 1924 Star Open Touring Car, owned by Antique Automobile Association of Brooklyn President Lenny Shiller, at a tollbooth set up on the Williamsburg Bridge on Tuesday. (Amal Chen/The Epoch Times)
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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