Erect fences to stop suicides on Verrazano Bridge, says kin of man who plunged to death | SILive.com
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Erect fences to stop suicides on Verrazano Bridge, says kin of man who plunged to death
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Staten Island Advance
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Those numbers are too high for Ms. Suero, who's gathering petitions, both in person and online, to ask the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to install a fence.
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