Mayor Bill de Blasio at the renaming ceremony of the Brooklyn Municipal Building in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ed Reed
Brooklyn Municipal
Building renamed after
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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COURIER L 6 IFE, MARCH 19-25, 2021
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Mayor Bill de Blasio offi
cially renamed the Downtown
Brooklyn Municipal
Building after United States
Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg on Monday,
honoring the late trailblazing
Brooklynite on what would
have been her 88th birthday.
“It is a moment today to
celebrate one of our heroes —
one of our sheroes — one of
the people who made such a
profound impact on this country,”
said de Blasio outside the
building on Joralemon Street
on March 15. “There is no
greater example of someone
who changed American history
and women’s history, no
greater example than Ruth
Bader Ginsburg.”
The beloved legal eagle
grew up in Midwood and went
to local schools PS 238 and
James Madison High School,
and her daughter recounted
the great education the late
judge received in the borough’s
educational and arts
facilities.
“Brooklyn’s institutions
shaped my mother’s intellectual
development, not just its
public schools of which she
was a proud graduate… but
also the Public Library, the
Brooklyn Museum, and especially
the Brooklyn Academy
of Music,” said Jane Ginsburg,
a law professor at Columbia
Law School.
The building’s renaming
came just a few days after a
6-foot bronze statue of Ginsburg
was unveiled at the City
Point shopping complex at Flatbush
Avenue Ext. on Friday.
The proposal to rename
the columned 1924 building
home to several city offi ces after
Ginsburg was fi rst fl oated
by Borough President Eric Adams’s
offi ce in 2018 and de Blasio
endorsed the idea after her
death last September at the age
of 87.
Another statue of Ginsburg
was planned by Gov. Andrew
Cuomo for Brooklyn Bridge
Park, but the state’s chief executive
— mired in mounting
twin scandals of sexual harassment
and covering up nursing
home deaths — has not publicly
indicated any progress on
those plans since establishing
a commission last fall.
One Bay Ridge advocate celebrated
the renaming in the
heart of America’s Downtown,
saying Ginsburg inspired
women to aim for the highest
positions of power in the land
in order to work for justice.
“We hope to see more
women in the Supreme Court
fi ghting for women’s rights
and for equality and for justice,”
said Somia El-Rowmeim,
the founder of the advocacy
organization Women Empowerment
Coalition of New York
City.
Another passer-by said that
the city should go further and
name a street after Ginsburg.
“They should rename a
street after her,” said East New
Yorker Glynis Wheeler. “She
was a trooper, she was strong.”
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