Kinda beat me to it. When they demand that the Sen Robert Kennedy Bridge in NYC be reverted back to it’s original name, the Triboro, or rename the FDR Drive, then, MAYBE then we can talk. But then again, maybe it’s a good idea to leave the FDR as it is. This highway has been under perpetual reconstruction for the last 70 years, and may actually be sinking into the East River. A shining example of how just about everything the gov’t touches turns to shiite.
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Maybe it will change as a generational thing, but that seems to be one of the biggest renaming fails I've ever seen. They renamed the bridge what, 7 years ago, and I have never once heard anyone call it anything other than the Triboro. Maybe traffic reporters and others who have to use the "official" name, but never in conversation.
Come to think of it, same thing with the Battery Tunnel--does anyone call it the Hugh Carey tunnel??
Yeah, the Triborough Bridge and the East River Drive.
But then, New Yorkers still call Avenue of the Americas Sixth Avenue.