With its last vote of 2021, the City Council voted to rename or co-name 199 streets in New York City, which now include Eric Garner Way, Conti’s Pastry Shoppe Boulevard, Tin Pan Alley, and more.
Street sign for Celia Cruz Way in the Bronx, June 2021.There are about 8,000 miles of streets criss-crossing New York City, and in its last vote of 2021, the. But that doesn’t mean your map app is about to get a big upgrade: most only cover a block or a corner, and the process is often seen as a small way to memorialize a person or honor an institution, historical event, longtime business, or a community with a connection to the place.
To get a street renamed, you have to start with the bottom rung of the city’s bureaucracy: the community board. Each one has their own twists and variations to the process, but when it comes to renaming streets after people specifically, there are a couple of hard and fast rules. “It has to be someone who's deceased, unfortunately, and they had to make some considerable contribution to the community,” saidThere are a couple of other considerations as well: for instance, at least 50 percent of people living on the block must sign a petition in favor of the renaming, and the location should have some personal or historical significance to the proposed name.
“You don’t want to name every street after every applicant that comes by, because it kinda loses its appeal,” McClelland said. “It gives people pause to think, maybe they go home, they Google that person if they’re interested.”, but here is a handful of the people, institutions, and communities being recognized with their own street names this year, and where you can find their signs:
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