Thousands of people have signed a petition in New York
City to rename the block in front of Trump Tower after former President
Barack Obama.
A MoveOn petition started by Elizabeth Rowin is calling for the
stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets to be renamed
“President Barack H. Obama Avenue.”
The petition would require President
Trump to formally change the address of his Trump Tower building, where
his 2020 reelection campaign will be headquartered on the 15th floor.
The measure had nearly 4,300 signatures as of Friday morning.
“We
request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by
renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former president who saved
our nation from the Great Recession, achieved too many other
accomplishments to list, and whose two terms in office were completely
scandal free,” the petition states.
A stretch of a freeway in Los Angeles was recently renamed after the former commander in chief.
For the street to be renamed, the New York
City Council would have to approve the measure and Mayor Bill de Blasio
(D) would have to sign off on the name change.
The council unanimously voted last month to
rename a street after the renowned hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, as well
as others after rapper Notorious B.I.G., signer Woody Guthrie and poet
Audre Lorde.