NEW YORK/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New Yorkers have been finding more and more ways to protest President Trump, from stripping his name off buildings he once built to holding demonstrations outside his Midtown Manhattan home/office. The latest effort: an online petition signed by more than 290,000 people seeks to officially rename one block of Fifth Avenue — where, you guessed it, Trump Tower is located — as President Barack H. Obama Avenue. Sounds like a simple enough request, considering how unpopular Mr. Trump is among the city’s residents. It’s not. The local community board has a longstanding moratorium against renaming streets. The councilman who represents the area said he opposed the petition. And Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker and a progressive Democrat who can muscle through legislation he favors, said he opposed the renaming, too.”
–Azi Paybarah, “Trump Tower on Obama Avenue: 290,000 Say Yes, but It Won’t Happen,” The New York Times online, August 15, 2019