Gothamist: Getting a Street Named After Jerry Orbach is Hard

fbl

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:42:40 -0500

I love the idea of a street named after Jerry. Those of you who don't think so, may have no idea how many people adored him. In a world filled with so much anger and confusion, it's comforting to find a common happiness... (He was the friggin' candlestick voice in the animated Beauty & the Beast for Christ's sake!!!)

Jeri

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:05:53 -0500

TVsquad linked to this article. Thanks for the extra publicity for this.I found this astonishing. More tv viewers world wide know NYC through the eyes of Jerry Orbach than from any other tv show. I found the website of the council. www.nyccouncil.info If you go down to the bottom of the page, there's a link to email the Community Council speaker. Please let her know that Mrs. Orbach's wishes, the tribute to Jerry Orbach, should be considered. Her target is 53rd Street and Eighth Avenue, where she and her late husband lived for 25 years before he died in December 2004 at age 69. Thanks!

jtg

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:21:41 -0500

Woah! Biggest movie star ever? I'll buy that he was a bigger star than Jerry but let's not get carried away here.

nick

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:35:39 -0500

#8.. humphrey bogart could be considered the biggest movie star ever. orbach was a talented character actor. he doesn't compare, even in new york. im sorry.

Ass-in-nine

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:26:25 -0500

Sorry, but what exactly did this actor do to deserve a street corner named after him? Perhaps we should start naming parking meters and blocks of pavement after famous people too, because god forbid a celebrity passes on and we don't name something after him or her!

amen

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:21:47 -0500

Nick, nationwide, Jerry doesn't compete with Humphrey, but he does in New York. He's iconic as Lennie Briscoe and was a Broadway star. As for Neuman, I'm surprised it took seven comments before someone made that joke, haha.

Neuman

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:04:13 -0500

Nobody put Baby in the corner, and apparently nobody will put Jerry in the corner either...

Tim N.

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:05:57 -0500

With all due respect to the CB (you could probably name ever streetlamp after someone in the Broadway district), naming the corner for Jerry is inevitable, and in politics the last place you want to be is on the wrong side of inevitable.

nick

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:53:27 -0500

while i love jerry orbach and think he should be honored... trying to compare him to HUMPHREY BOGART is a bit, um, of a stretch.

miranda wright

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:39:19 -0500

He should be remembered as Baby's daddy. and for some reason, I thought he was one of the bad cops in "the Marcus-Nelson murders". Did he ever play a corrupt cop?

Michael

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:38:25 -0500

I love Jerry Orbach and Law and Order, but the proper thing to do is >wait Wait five years after someone dies... and then if there is still a groundswell of interest in naming something after them, consider it. Immediately after someone dies, there's a lot of "sympathy interest"... if we start naming street after every dead New Yorker of note, the city will be awash in meaningless signs.

tehroxorz

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:34:58 -0500

I liked Jerry Orbach too. But why get so up in arms over an actor? The city council has much bigger problems to deal with than renaming streets for a celebrity. What a waste of time and money.

Fan

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:21:51 -0500

Jerry was the man.