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  
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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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