Posted on 11/12/2024 12:04:16 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Empire State Building won’t light up to honor Polish Independence Day on Tuesday — and charged-up critics aren’t taking the snub lightly.
Several City Council members told The Post they’ve pushed for the tribute but they’ve been met with multiple denials from the organization that decides on the lighting schedule for the famous Manhattan skyscraper.
“The Polish-American community is one of the largest ethnic communities in New York, and they have made significant contributions to our city’s cultural, social, and economic fabric,” council members Bob Holden, Joann Ariola, Lincoln Restler and Carlina Rivera wrote in a Nov. 4 letter to the president and chairman of the Empire State Realty Trust, pleading the bigwigs to reconsider the decision.
“Moving forward, we ask that you continue to embrace opportunities to celebrate the diverse communities that call New York home,” the letter added.
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The Empire State building should only do American.
The Polish community can do their events. Invite everybody, but do it in a neighborhood.
Well then light it up for the Indians who sold Manhattan for
$24 dollars worth of beads and trinkets.
Recalling the Mother Theresa of Calcutta controversy, went “spelunking”, found this:
Your Cause in Lights: The Empire State Building’s Tribute Policy
By Sydney Beveridge |Jun 14, 2010
One of the most recognizable buildings in the world—loved by tourists, locals, and giant gorillas alike—the Empire State Building decorates the New York City skyline with regular displays of colored lights. A recent controversy over the Empire State Building’s rejection of the Catholic League’s proposal to honor of Mother Teresa’s centennial with blue and white lights has put a spotlight on the building’s lighting policy. Among the protestors, City Council members are speaking out against the decision.
As stated by the building management, which receives hundreds of lighting requests each year, “The Empire State Building’s tower lights recognize key milestones, events, charitable organizations, countries, and holidays throughout the world, not political or religion related events.”
Yet, some lighting choices have been controversial. For example, in 2009, when red and yellow lights shone to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of China, critics called it a tribute to Communist rule and a country with a poor human rights record. And religious figures have been honored in the past, such as in 1979, when the building lit up in white and gold in honor of the pope’s visit to New York, and in 2005, when they were dimmed to honor his death. The Catholic League also pointed out that in 2000, the building was lit in red and white when Cardinal Archbishop of New York John Joseph O’Connor died, and the building is regularly lit black, red and green in honor of Martin Luther King Day. In May, the building lit up in blue and white to honor the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York’s Salute to Israel Parade. Also, a number of the holidays marked with lights (Christmas, Chanukah, Eid al-Fitr) have religious significance.
The 2008 rejection of an application from the Marine Corps to honor its birthday has also come back into the discussion.
The management has stayed quiet on the Mother Teresa decision other than stating that it’s final. It has been self-critical in the past for lighting choices on occasion. In a 2003 New York Times interview, building special events manager Lydia A. Ruth said she regretted some of the more commercial lighting choices—Microsoft 95 (blue, red, green and yellow), new M&Ms (blue), and Pink Floyd’s new album (red pulses).
Thaddeus Kościuszko is not amused.
It is on the same day as Veterans Day (aka Armistice Day) because they finally became independent again as a result of the end of WW I. Celebrate our Veterans / Armistice Day.
How about the day they got free of the Soviet Union? A lot more recent and people alive who were freed.
Wait...what?
NYC, initially “New Amsterdam”, has always been cosmopolitan, and international in flavor.
Poles contributed magnificently to our bid for Independence from GBR.
You might want to cut them a little slack.
Neither is Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski (anglicized as Casimir Pulaski).
That’s just my thought for all communities and nationalities. I love neighborhood ethnic celebrations where anybody who wants to go can celebrate.
Fair enough, got it J30.
It will light up for butt bugger afficionados and other depraved LGBTQXYZ types.
What if they agree to screw in the lightbulbs?
James Van Dursen was the founder, and my Grandmother was the direct “money bloodline”; her father spend the fortune on the Oklahoma Indian Reservation in the late 1880s until 1915 or so on the Indians who received blankets, food, medicine. My grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1913 on the Reservation as her dad ministered to the tribes. I googled the res and found the road down the middle of the res is named after them. Grand mom’s sister was married to Geroge Armstrong Custer and they did that in attonement for the “sins of Custer”. James V.D. was the man who founded New Amsterdam and he was the man who signed the treaty ceeding all Dutch possessions in the new world to England; he remained on in New York as the administer for the Crown of England for three years or so after the transfer of the colony.
I had the chance to serve in Georgetown Guyana for two years, which was Dutch Guyana before it bacame British Guyana.
So yea, cut the folks who came here and lived and built the great cities some slack.
Curtis Sliwa would have made them light up.
Adams and Hochul won’t.
“Thaddeus Kościuszko is not amused.”
“Neither is Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski (anglicized as Casimir Pulaski).”
I’ve got two bridges I want to sell you
AKA The Dolly parton Bridges
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the Kashubian Traitor, didn’t even appear at the Independence Day Ceremonies.
Aw, that's sad. Lech Walesa endorsed Kamala, and Kamala's campaign cash (which I think started out as Biden's) probably included plenty from NYC, and much wound up getting grifted away.
I’d be proud if a giant flashlight in the middle of a dump didn’t light up in colors in support of me. It’s like a whore switching the red light to blue or green because that’s your color.
Lemme guess, they couldn’t change the light bulbs....
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