Can't they spell? A Dyker Heights activist is demanding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tack another Z onto the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge so it matches namesake Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. Every day that the Florentine explorer's misspelled cognome hangs on roadway signs is a travesty, and now its time to do something about it, the 21-year-old activist said.

"It's been 52 years we've been spelling it wrong," said Robert Nash, who founded the Italian-American Society at his alma mater Saint Francis University. "If we're really going to honor him — and his name has two Zs — then its time.

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