Editing Bridge and tunnel (section)

===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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