Push to honor ex-senator gets political
Photo credit: AP | U.S. Senator James L. Buckley, R-NY, testifies in Washington. (March 21, 1975)
Naming a public site after a former elected official makes a symbolic statement of presumed permanence.
This is so even if many of us will always say the Triborough instead of RFK Bridge, the 59th Street rather than Ed Koch Bridge, or the Brooklyn-Battery and not the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel.
Now, a humbler proposal has surfaced to name the visitors center at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge...
