New York, NY – Proposal To Rename Subway Station After Koch

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US Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (Democrat - Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) stands next to a sign proposing a name change to the 77th Street subway station in honor of former New York City Mayor Edward in New York, New York, USA, 04 February 2013. Koch was a three term mayor of New York City who died last week at the age of 88  EPA/ANDREW GOMBERTNew York, NY – Rep. Carolyn Maloney wants a Manhattan street corner and subway station to be renamed in Mayor Ed Koch’s honor.

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Maloney will announce the renaming of the corner at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue at a news conference Monday. It will be called “Mayor Edward I. Koch” street.

The congresswoman also will recommend to the MTA that the subway station at that corner be renamed “Mayor Ed Koch subway station.”

Koch called it his favorite stop on the subway, where he often campaigned.

Officials have introduced legislation in the City Council to rename the subway station.

Koch died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88. His funeral is Monday.


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Longwave
Longwave
11 years ago

I would rather have it named for people that really deserve it. Like the transit officers who put their lives on the line every day protecting us in that station. Or the NYPD cops who protect us every day in the streets above the station.

This is basic Hakarat Hatov. Do it to them while they are alive, not after they dies protecting us.

As for Koch – let him stay buried in the goyish cemetary.

bennyt
bennyt
11 years ago

Maybe he should be buried in that subway station.

Aryeh
Aryeh
11 years ago

He had a mehitza built around his plot, it is completely kosher, as was the kavira.

DanielBarbaz
DanielBarbaz
11 years ago

I am always surprised by how many angry, bitter, narrow minded, ethnocentric, and provincial people blog on this site.

Refuah Sheimah to all.

11 years ago

What a crime all these nasty comment appear on VIN. I never realized how bitter and uneducated my fellow Frum brothers and sisters are. I am proud Koch was a Jew. I am not proud about mean comments here which the world reads and quotes. If you don’t have anything positive to say, be quiet and read Torah. It may help you one day realize what is important in life.

mewhoze
mewhoze
11 years ago

daniel…well said

MarkTwain2
MarkTwain2
11 years ago

Wow, that’s out sooner after death than even our current Gedolim books.