Verrazano Narrows Bridge Stamps (Brooklyn, Staten Island, New York City, NYC, Architecture) Unused USPS Postage 5c

Add classic Big Apple flair to your letters with these vintage unused "Verrazano-Narrows Bridge" postage stamps! This classic NYC design is perfect for adding a touch of class to your cards and letters or save-the-dates and weddings. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 5-cents. These USPS postage stamps are suitable for current mailing when used with the total required postage based on the weight of your correspondence. Embrace the charm of New York City with this iconic postage stamp!

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
• Series: Standalone/commemorative
• Year Issued: 1964
• Face Value: 5-cents each (USD)
• Topic(s): Bridge, NYC, New York, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bridge, Engineering
• Color(s): Green
• Printing Method: Rotary Press
• Scott Number: 1258
• Adhesion Type: Gummed
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP HISTORY: The 1964 5¢ “Verrazano-Narrows Bridge” postage stamp was issued by the U.S. Post Office Department on November 21, 1964, to commemorate the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge—a monumental engineering achievement linking the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City. At the time of its completion, the Verrazano-Narrows was the longest suspension bridge in the world, a symbol of postwar American optimism, innovation, and the enduring human drive to connect and create.

The bridge, named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, the 16th-century Italian explorer believed to be the first European to enter New York Harbor (in 1524), was designed by the renowned engineer Othmar H. Ammann and architect Cass Gilbert, who also designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Construction began in August 1959 and was completed five years later under the direction of the Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey). When it opened to traffic on November 21, 1964, its main span of 4,260 feet (1,298 meters) surpassed that of the Golden Gate Bridge, earning it a place among the world’s great modern wonders.

The stamp’s design was created by Robert L. Miller, a U.S. Post Office Department artist who also designed several other contemporary commemoratives. The artwork features a clean, modern rendering of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge stretching across New York Harbor, its towers rising majestically against a soft blue sky. The design captures both the scale and elegance of the structure, emphasizing its sweeping cables and geometric symmetry. 

The stamp's colors—shades of blue and gray—reflect the steel and sky tones of the actual bridge, conveying both strength and serenity. The first-day ceremony took place in New York City, coinciding with the bridge’s official dedication. The event was attended by civic and political leaders, including New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and city planner Robert Moses, whose ambitious vision for regional infrastructure had guided the bridge’s conception.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The 1964 5¢ “Verrazano-Narrows Bridge” postage stamp is a quiet yet profound symbol of faith, connection, and the triumph of vision over separation. Though created to celebrate an engineering marvel, its deeper resonance lies in what bridges have always represented to the human spirit—the sacred act of reaching across divides, of linking what was once distant, and of trusting in the unseen strength that holds us together.

The image of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, stretching gracefully across New York Harbor, evokes the timeless spiritual truth that progress begins with faith in what cannot yet be crossed. Like prayer or hope, a bridge begins in imagination—it is built first in vision, and only later in steel. Spiritually, this reflects the journey of the soul: each of us must span our own narrows—the gaps between fear and courage, isolation and belonging, matter and spirit. The bridge, in this way, becomes a metaphor for transcendence—for our innate longing to connect with the divine and with one another.

The bridge’s twin towers, rising toward the heavens, resemble the portals of a great cathedral. They frame the path between worlds—the solid and the ethereal, the seen and the unseen. The intricate web of cables represents the interdependence of all creation, each strand necessary for the stability of the whole. Spiritually, they remind us that unity is strength—that our lives, like those cables, are woven together in a divine pattern of support and purpose.

The colors of the stamp, rendered in cool tones of blue and gray, evoke calm, sky, and water—elements traditionally associated with the infinite and the eternal. Blue, the color of heaven, signifies trust and truth; gray, the color of stone and steel, signifies endurance and wisdom. Together, they reflect the balance of spirit and matter, vision and manifestation, faith and form.

At the time of its issue in 1964—a year marked by both tension and transformation in America—the stamp’s celebration of a bridge carried a deeper hope: that humanity could rise above its divisions and build pathways of understanding. Spiritually, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge thus stands not only as a monument of human engineering, but as a symbol of the divine architecture of unity—the belief that all separation can be crossed when guided by courage, cooperation, and love.

GUMMED STAMPS: These postage stamps have a traditional moisture-activated gum on the back. These stamps require licking or wetting to adhere to envelopes or other surfaces. To ensure good adhesion, apply vintage gummed stamps to your mailings with a glue stick (we recommend using Elmer's "Re-Stick" glue sticks).

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use the adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates at USPS.com.

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