Editing Bridge and tunnel (section)

==Etymology==
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Though the term originates from the [[Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority]],{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} it has come to encompass all people who commute from outside of New York City proper, including [[Connecticut]], [[Long Island]], [[New Jersey]], and the [[Hudson Valley]]. The ''[[Oxford Dictionaries (website)|Oxford Dictionaries]]'' explains that a bridge-and-tunnel person is one who lives in the suburbs and is perceived as unsophisticated.<ref>{{cite news|journal=Oxford Dictionaries|title=bridge-and-tunnel|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bridge-and-tunnel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718223259/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bridge-and-tunnel|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 18, 2012|accessdate=23 June 2013}}</ref> However, this is sometimes also used as allusion to New York City's vast transportation system.<ref>{{cite web | last=Grynbaum | first=Michael M. | title=Are You a Bridge or a Tunnel? | website=City Room | date=2010-12-08 | url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/are-you-a-bridge-or-a-tunnel-2/ | accessdate=2015-12-03}}</ref>

===Origin===
The earliest known instance of this phrase in print is the December 13, 1977, edition of ''[[The New York Times]]'':<ref>{{cite web | last=Nemy | first=Enid | title=To Be Thin, Beautiful and Cheek-to-Jowl | website=The New York Times | date=1977-12-14 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/14/archives/to-be-thin-beautiful-and-cheektojowl.html | accessdate=2015-12-03}}</ref>

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"On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in," he said.

Elizabeth Fondaras, a pillar of the city's conservative social scene, who has just told [[Steve Rubell]] she had never tried to get into [[Studio 54]] for fear of being rejected, asked who the bridge and tunnel people were.

“The people from Queens and Staten Island and those places,” he said.
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