From the NY Post:City Council Peter Vallone said today that he's opposed to renaming the iconic East River crossing after the 105th mayor.
“Mayor Ed Koch is truly a great man and deserving of an honor like this, but renaming a landmark so closely linked to our borough’s culture and history is not appropriate. The city would not rename the Brooklyn Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge should be treated equally,” Vallone said.
Mayor Bloomberg had proposed the honor last year to celebrate Koch's 86th birthday.
The re-naming requires approval by the City Council.
65 comments:
I agree.....leave it alone. Let it remain the Queensboro Bridge.
Yeah. We're no Koch suckers!!!
Yeah. We're no Koch suckers!!!
You can say that again.
This is the first time I agree with vallone.I think I can actually hold my nose and bring myself to support him now.
Way to go!
naming this bridge for the mayor with the most corrupt city government in n.y.c. history is a sin.
read "city for sale" by wayne barrett.
I agree too - let it be.
I like Koch - something should be named after him -
Vallone said nothing about the Triboro becoming the RFK.
I guess somesome did not give him something he wanted so this is in spite.
LOL....it's the "Eddie Cock Bridge".
That's how, I believe, Koch is usually pronounced in German.
And how fitting for a gay ex-mayor with a rent controlled apartment in Greenwhich Village..
Well in a way if Koch really is gay...it's still the Queen's Borough Bridge...either "bottom or top" (deck)!
If the city has no money then it has no business undertaking vanity projects such as this.
Don't spend money on any further name changes anywhere in this city.
If they insist that Koch be named for a street I suggest they rename Park Avenue as Koch Avenue.See how that go over with the silk stocking set.
He's a life-long resident of Manhattan, rarely ventured to Queens. So if any naming, let's rename the Manhattan Bridge (but would Brooklynites say?), or maybe "Greenwich Village" where he spent most of his life.
Babs said...
I agree too - let it be.
I like Koch
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Babs- You spelled cock wrong again! Or were you going for crotch?
While we're on the subject, keep away from mine!
Rename Christopher street to Koch street
THE CITY IS CRYING THAT THERES NO MONEY BUT OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS.. IF BLOOMSHIT WANTS TO RENAME IT FOR MORON KOCH'S 86 B DAY THEN HE SHOULD BE PAYING FOR IT NOT NY'ERS...
When, o when, will Boss Tweed get his due?
When, o when, will Boss Tweed get his due?
The Tweedpire State Building?
Tweed-a-feller Center?
The Tweedside Highway?
Central Tweed?
The Tweed's Neck Bridge?
Notice how 2.5 years after the "renaming" of the Triborough Bridge to RFK, that the Triborough signs are still all over the highways?
Vallone, stick to your guns m'boy. Show some back bone here.
Just another case of Bloomie laying a big, steamy dump on Queens.
To him, Queens is just a traffic nuisance on his way to the Hamptons.
If Vallone relents, you'll know that the Mayor promised him or Astoria something......
I support it only if it had an authentic Queens flavor:
"The Edward I. Koch - Donald R. Manes Bridge"
But hey -- who remembers the 80's now?
Name a sewage treatment plant after him instead
if it has to be renamed ,it should be "THE REAGAN BRIDGE".
NANCY REAGAN was raised in Flushing ,Queens in the Bowne St./Sanford Avenue section.
i believe her step-father was a doctor. she may have been adopted by them?
Let's rename the South Bronx for Koch. Isn't that what he is most famous for?
peter vallone should complain that his brother paul's democratic club is named after Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton sold this country out to the chinese
the same way some city council candidates wanted to sell out north queens to developers
thankS to Steve Behar that did not happen
"Thanks to Behar" Havent you noticed that Bayside, Whitestone, WILLETS POINT, College Point, Main Street, have been sold out to developers??? look around the Grace Property, the waterfront in College Point, the old Whitestone CYO, Willets Point ED!. Where the hell is Behar??? Behar is a yutz as is Forcina, and Vallone is in bed with Apelian and Shulman. WAKE THE FCK UP!
Another thing: WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! PETER AND PAUL WANT THAT BRIDGE NAMED AFTER DADDY... HOW THE HELL DO YOU NOT SEE THAT WRITING ON THE WALL? ASTORIA IS THE GRAFITTI CAPITAL AFTER ALL!!!!!
oh Jesus Christ.......for God's sake.....leave the damn bridge alone!
Feelin' Groovy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc
Behar was the only one with the guts to take on Vallone and his developer pals. He exposed Paul Vallone as being in the pocket of Daddy Vallone's developer friends.
Feelin' Groovy?
No.
Simon and Garfunkel. Two assholes bred in Queens naming their treacly song the "59th Street Bridge Song". S&G, no respect for their home borough. That's why Bloomberg and Koch do not respect OUR bridge. The placque on the upper roadway clearly calls it the "Queensboro Bridge".
It ain't broke. Don't fix it.
whos beehar? Never heard of him.
If Vallone relents, you'll know that the Mayor promised him or Astoria something......
Bullshit, Astoria gets nothing but transient yuppies on their way to buying their first mansion in the Hamptons.
We can't even get our garbage picked up for weeks, when Manhattan is spotless.
FUCK BLOOMBERG.
Simon and Garfunkel. Two assholes bred in Queens naming their treacly song the "59th Street Bridge Song". S&G, no respect for their home borough.
Seems like our music critic Georgetheatheist has taste up his wazoo. What did he ever contribute to society? And exactly how does that song disrespect Queens? Oh. It mentions 59th Street? And that makes S & G assholes? Perhaps the asshole shoe should be on the other foot??!!?!
The City Council hearing is on Friday. Be there!
The 59th Street Bridge Song - I give it a 1.5, Dick. Pretentious lyrics and you can't dance to it.
georgetheatheist said...
The 59th Street Bridge Song - I give it a 1.5, Dick. Pretentious lyrics and you can't dance to it.
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The name's Richard to you, georgethenonbeliever! We don't want to know the size of your 1 1/2 inch pecker so keep it to yourself. What makes you a music critic? It was never even meant to be a dance song so go finish your turd sandwich and pretend you're a real person!
What makes me a music critic?
Witness.
"Hello lamp-post,
What cha knowin'?
I've come to watch your flowers growing'.
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo
Feelin' groovy."
Grade A, stamped with red grape juice ink, USDA certified, TREACLE from the S&G arseholes.
WTF do those crap lyrics have to do with the Queensboro Bridge?
WTF do those crap lyrics have to do with the Queensboro Bridge?
What a jerk! Why are you so obsessed? Evidence of a very sick mind.
While I do enjoy S&G's songs now and then, "The 59th Street Bridge Song" sucked.
The Crapper has spoken.
George said;
Vallone, stick to your guns m'boy. Show some back bone here.
The only guns Vallone fires are for the developers - and that small streatch of 23 Ave loudmuths that has some surprises comeing to them.
Fellas, your sun is setting.
And George, you are such a Fun-gi.
Actually in LIC its the 59th Street Bridge, as it used to be the 92nd St Ferry and and 34th St Frerry.
Its names a place we go to in NY. Folks from LIC consider ourselves to be for all intents and purposes, part of 'the city.'
Since you Queens types pride yourselfs in thinking you are so great, that is fine.
LIC is not Queens.
Actually, LIC is very much treated like Queens. You can delude yourselves into thinking you are a cheaper Manhattan, but you ain't. Your snow wasn't cleaned and your garbage wasn't picked up either.
"whos beehar? Never heard of him."
That's because you're an ass-hole who has had his head in the sand!
And where does our illustrious Borough President stand on this issue - Helen "Where's the Buffet?" Marshall? A true champion of Queens' interests.
"Thanks to Behar" Havent you noticed that Bayside, Whitestone, WILLETS POINT, College Point, Main Street, have been sold out to developers??? look around the Grace Property, the waterfront in College Point, the old Whitestone CYO, Willets Point ED!. Where the hell is Behar??? Behar is a yutz as is Forcina, and Vallone is in bed with Apelian and Shulman. WAKE THE FCK UP!
Another thing: WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! PETER AND PAUL WANT THAT BRIDGE NAMED AFTER DADDY... HOW THE HELL DO YOU NOT SEE THAT WRITING ON THE WALL? ASTORIA IS THE GRAFITTI CAPITAL AFTER ALL!!!!!
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You make me laugh. Paul has done more good for this community than any of those other goons could ever dream of. Steve Behar is a joke, same goes for all those other clowns who "exposed" Paul. I've seen Steve Behar around Paul, he's ask fake as it gets. All he does is suck up to him. He is a fake who will literally say anything to make himself look like the "hero" of Council District 19. If this website wasn't so concerned with bashing the Vallones and actually took their heads out of their asses, maybe you'd see that he's a pretty good guy.
queens dems are among the most corrupt in the country
paul is a nice guy and compared to muts like the staviskys and crew he is a saint
however Steve behar has been a true hero of reform
he says it like it is and you have to respect steve behar as well as Forcina,and paul vallone all of these guys ran against the corrupt machine which i assume is not easy
Paul is a good guy that is doing some good things with the club and without. I am glad to know him.
Going through the Koch Bridge would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
it really is "the bridge to bloomingdales".
Funny, I've heard both Vallone and Ianecce blame Behar for them losing the city council seat. We should thank him for that alone.
Your snow wasn't cleaned and your garbage wasn't picked up either.
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Come on Crappy, you slubs pay the taxes and we get the fruit - beautiful views of Manhattan while you get to stare at Queens Crap walls amd listen to funky music in your air shafts all night, new libraries and schools and parks while they close your hospitals and cut back on your pathetic services.
LIC went downhill the moment they yoked it to Queens, and is now rebounding once they cut the suffocating ropes.
Now let me look at the beautiful 59th Street Bridge from my window while you dance the kumbaya around the Unisphere, a child of the Age of Edsal fins, GE HiFis, and Mangnavox TVs.
Thank your politicans and civic leaders, don't get angry with us. They sold you down the river and we just picked up the fruit they left us.
I resemble that remark:
That's "zhlub", pal.
Und don't forget "Edzel" und "Magnafuchs". Hahr-hahr-hahr. (I chust luff dis zite.)
The Vallones are lobbyists for the developers. You can't name one democratic politician in Northeast Queens who doesn't have ties to lobbysits. It's sickening!
we need more people like steve behar in queens to help fight the corruption
maybe ed braunstein will be a breathe of fresh air
Ed Braunstein is a dumb shill for Shelly Silver and his uncle the big time lobbyist.
Funny, I've heard both Vallone and Ianecce blame Behar for them losing the city council seat. We should thank him for that alone.
----------------------------------Funniest thing I heard all week.Beahr got about 19 votes.How the hell did he cost them the election.They lost because kevin kim won.
Actually in LIC its the 59th Street Bridge, as it used to be the 92nd St Ferry and and 34th St Frerry.
Don't they teach trust fund twits from Connecticut how to spell up there?
Or did you get dropped on your head from your illegal nanny when you were 4 years old?
Iannece lost the election because Vallone refused to step down due to entitlement. Yet again an example of Italan Americans screwing themselves. They split the vote making way for Kim to win. Vallone should have backed out and supported Iannece. But being that he is an Italian American, its instinct to Screw your own kind if hes not from the same town. A Korean would never do that to another Korean especially if on the same party line.
So The Guineas split the vote, the Wok wins, and all the neighborhood that backed Vallone and Iannecce get behind the pagan Mic.
QUEENS POLITICS AT IT BEST, GOTTA LOVE IT.
"Bookends"
Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences.
Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you
"Feelin" Groovy" (I don't like the other title, either) was a throwaway song, albeit one that made Paul Simon a heck of a lot of money. The lyrics above are more indicative of what he wrote.
Georgetheatheist would be better off with the "Sounds of Silence" because every time he sounds off, he proves that he knows nothing about everything!
Thank you. One of my many fans.
(Crapper, get the Flit. The roaches are coming out of the baseboard again.)
The roaches are coming out of the baseboard again.)
I think there are roaches in georgetheatheist's ashtray. He's always making an ash of himself!
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