Clyde Haberman, writing his NYC column in The Times, argues that the City shouldn’t rename the Triborough Bridge after Robert F. Kennedy. I agree. Interestingly, Haberman proposes naming the bridge after Andrew Haswell Green, a 19th-century urban planning who has been nearly completely overshadowed by Robert Moses. [The New York Times]
Haberman: Name the bridge after someone more deserving
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Screw naming the bridge after someone. Triborough works just fine. Why bother naming it after someone at all? In a time where everything is being named after someone or something, it’s nice to have a few neutral names around.
The American naming system for landmarks and projects works just like the Soviet one: by numbers. The only difference is that the USSR used the numbers directly, hence “School No. 21,” while the US translates them into Presidents, hence “Chester A. Arthur Elementary.”
And if you think that’s bad, think of how in about 30 years people will start naming things after George W. Bush.