From the Forum West:Streets in Richmond Hill and Glendale have been renamed after two notable members of the neighborhoods, announced City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley.
The Union Turnpike mall between Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale will be named the Frederick D. Haller Way, and 109th Street between 86th Street and Jamaica Avenue will be known as Nancy Cataldi Way. The ceremonial names were approved on June 30, when the City Council passed legislation to rename streets throughout the five boroughs.
And from the Times Ledger:
The City Council approved a bill June 30 to rename the corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue “Run DMC JMJ Way” in honor of the hip-hop group that pioneered the genre. The corner is near the location of Hollis Famous Burger, a restaurant and museum dedicated to the history of hip-hop and filled with memorabilia from the band.
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The City Council approved a bill June 30 to rename the corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue “Run DMC JMJ Way” in honor of the hip-hop group that pioneered the genre.
That should really help the "self esteem" of the residents in that area! I'm sure the test scores in the local high school will increase exponentially, the teen pregnancy rates will plummet, and crime will become non-existent!
We wouldn't want any streets named after those pesky "white males"! It might make the locals "feel bad" about themselves!
Righto Wade!
Nancy Cataldi was a beautiful person,
both inside and out
and always selflessly worked hard for the community she loved.
She left us at way too young an age.
It's fitting that she be honored in some way.
We will never completely recover from the shock of her passing or her loss.
Some of the blame I am sure from the stress of trying to landmark her community and fighting developers.
Wade, it probably won't make any social problems go away but c'mon! Its a street sign that you will most likely never lay your eyes on in person.
Why do you have to make it into a racial thing?
Because everyone else is always "making it a racial thing"
A friend of my sisters dated Run DMC and from what I heard, he was a gentleman. I don't know if he deserves a street named after him, but we have probably named things after worse people.
Run DMC is the name of a music group. Did your sister's friend date them all at once?
No, I mean Jam Master J. of Run DMC. My bad.
Who's Fred Haller?
Who's Run DMC?
What I'm saying is: Why do you have to make it into a racial thing?
Wade has apparently either forgotten about or never heard of Leonard Bernstein Way at Lincoln Center, Joey Ramone Way, on the Lower East Side, Louis Mumford Way in Sunnyside, and literally hundreds of other stretches of streets named after caucasoids. That or he's a bitchy little troll.
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