"bridge and tunnel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977 December 14, Enid Nemy, “To Be Thin, Beautiful and Cheek-to-Jowl”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "\"On the weekends, we get all the bridge and tunnel people who try to get in,\" he said.\nElizabeth 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.\n\"Those people from Queens and Staten Island and those places,\" he said.",
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          "ref": "1984, Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself: The Semi-Tougher Adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett and Them, Simon and Schuster, →OL, page 18",
          "text": "I had said to the team, \"We can't go to New Jersey. What would they call us, the Bridge and Tunnels?\"",
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          "ref": "2011 June 29, Alexis Swerdloff, “Fly by Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "You’d get everyone from tourists to bridge and tunnel people in the club.",
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