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COURIER LIFE, F 20 EBRUARY 12-18, 2021
TRUMP THIS!
Sunset Park pol seeks to
remove former president’s
moniker from all city buildings
BY ROSE ADAMS
Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos
Menchaca is pushing to ban former
President Donald J. Trump’s
name from appearing on buildings
throughout the city — arguing that
the sight of his moniker could be traumatic
for some residents.
“You simply cannot have an insurrectionist
and white supremacist sympathizer’s
name prominently displayed
in the greatest city in the world,” he
said. “New Yorkers should not be forced
to see the name of an insurrectionist,
white supremacist sympathizer where
we shop, live, and work.”
Menchaca, a Democrat who’s running
in the upcoming mayoral election,
is working with the Department
of Buildings to adjust the city’s Building
Code statute regulating “appropriateness”
and “quality of life” to ban the
former president’s name, according to
spokeswoman Jen Schneider.
If Menchaca’s efforts are successful,
Trump will have his name erased
from the facades of 10 New York City
buildings: eight in Manhattan, one in
Queens, and one in the Bronx. Buildings
that are named after other members
of the Trump family — such as
Coney Island’s Trump Village named
after Fred Trump — would not be affected
by the rule, Schneider said.
The regulation, in addition to providing
psychological benefi ts, could
also save taxpayer dollars, Menchaca
argued. The city spent $150 million on
security for Trump Tower throughout
his four-year term, installing barricades
and stationing offi cers around
the tower. Security costs have plummeted
since Trump lost the November
election, but having his name affi xed
to the tower may still draw violence,
posing a threat to public safety, the pol
said.
The proposal follows calls from activists
for the removal of other controversial
names and fi gures across the
borough. In December, local activists
demanded the removal of a Christopher
Columbus statue in Downtown
ALL IN A NAME: Councilmember and mayoral
candidate Carlos Menchaca hopes to rid
city buildings of Trump’s name.
File photo by Rose Adams
Brooklyn, and over the summer, a petition
called on the city to change the
names of streets named after slave
owners.
While many of those proposals garnered
widespread support, Menchaca’s
proposal has drawn some mixed reactions.
On Twitter, some praised the effort
to erase the Trump name, maintaining
it had a “negative vibe,” while
other blasted the effort as vapid symbolism.
“Please do something useful with
your time Councilman,” wrote Avery
Pereiera, a Republican Sunset Park
activist and district leader. “This is a
waste of time and our focus should be
on the struggling people in our community.”
Still, Menchaca emphasized the potential
of the Trump “ban” to usher in
a new, reconciliatory era.
“Much like the removal of confederate
statues helped turn the page on a
dark period in our history, so would the
removal of Donald Trump’s name from
New York City buildings,” he said.
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