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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Barack Obama Ave"
NY should rename 5th Ave "Barack Obama Ave" so that Trump Tower will have to use that as its address forever.- Josh Goodman
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Nothing less than genius - someone should start a petition
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"Barack Obama Ave" (Original Post)
Soph0571
Dec 2018
OP
They could designate the stretch that runs in front of Cheetolini's tower
Vinnie From Indy
Dec 2018
#2
FM123
(10,053 posts)1. I love this idea!
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)2. They could designate the stretch that runs in front of Cheetolini's tower
Madam Mossfern
(2,340 posts)3. I'm sorry, I'm too much a traditionalist
"Fifth Avenue" means too much to me to change the name merely for spite.
Obama is not a New Yorker.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)4. I'd prefer Hillary Clinton Won Ave.
Just for a few choice blocks. It could be like 6th Ave/Avenue of the Americas. And she is a New Yorker.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)10. much better!
yardwork
(61,608 posts)8. Sixth Avenue is also the Avenue of the Americas.
Capperdan
(492 posts)5. That would insult Obama
They just named a section of freeway in LA after our real leader
Politicub
(12,165 posts)6. I don't live in NYC, but I approve!!
That would be gangsta.
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)7. Yes!
Start the process now and when he is impeached (and removed) it will be a little extra gift from NY citizens.
IronLionZion
(45,441 posts)9. DC neighborhoods have done this to embassies
by voting to rename the street just in front of the Saudi embassy to Jamal Khashoggi Way and the area in front of the Russian embassy to Boris Nemtsov Plaza.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)11. We could start a GoFundMe account
To help the City of New York with any expenses they might incur.