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City Councilwoman Letitia James won't stop til she gets enough ... rejection from the MTA? She's still lobbying for the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station to be named after the late King of Pop, or for a plaque to go up recognizing he filmed his video for "Bad" there. She told the Daily News, "The Transit Authority has already said, 'Beat it,' literally" since MTA guidelines prohibit plaques and memorials in subway stations for some reason. As for renaming the station, the organization is still developing the guidelines for station naming rights. Earlier this year, however, the MTA agreed to sell naming rights at Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street to Bruce Ratner for $4 million (over 20 years). So James wonders, "if the Michael Jackson foundation offered them $10 million for naming rights they'd consider listening." Not that the foundation has offered that, but if they were the MTA should definitely consider it. In the meantime, James is starting a petition drive at the singer's 51st birthday celebration. If you've never seen the full 16-minute version of the Martin Scorsese-directed video, you can watch it here (part 1) and here (part 2).
MTA Gives MJ No Love Underground... Yet
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That would be a neat trick since Michael Jackson's charities were insolvent and folded years ago.
What a waste of time. Doesn't Letitia James have anything better to do???
No.
Her handlers said she needs to get her face/name in the news under the pretense that she is doing something beneficial for her constiuents.
Which she is not.
oh, like trying to get things named for creepy pedophiles just happens on its own - you have to work at it.
Ms. James, if you have nothing better to do, step aside and let the grown ups work.
Now if he was a dead Kennedy there might have been a better chance of having the MTA wasting money renaming it.
And it's TvM FTW!
Yeah, someone who used to be senator from NY and was assassinated while running for president would certainly have a better chance than a child-molesting, drug-abusing pop singer with no New York connection.
No New York connection? Umm, hello, his boyfriend Macaulay Culkin is from New York.
ftw!
You mean like the Hoyt Schermerhorn Jello Biafra station?
Schermerhorn Jacko Biafra?
Yep!
The MTA has too much integrity to fall for this shenanigan.
But if money was involved, I'm sure it would be a done deal
HA HA HA, the MTA has about as much integrity as i have money in the bank... almost none!
You think so?
That station has been used as a filming location dozens of times. They might as well name it after The Warriors.
I, for one, would like to switch trains at Hoyt-Schemerhorn-Crocodile Dundee Station.
I can get behind that.
I'd bet you would PedoBear ;)
Jesus. Name a street corner after him like every other pointless gesture the city likes to make, and be done with it.
Shouldn't she be going after the D train 125th street station that is around the corner from the Apollo?
during our troubled economic times I can think of no better idea than spend who-knows how much money to change/update EVERY sign/map that used to point to Hoyt. this reminds me of the renaming of the Triborough Bridge. MJ had almost nothing to do with NY except this video. did he even own an apt here?
Naming rights to the Atlantic Avenue station weren't sold to Bruce Ratner, but to Barclay's Bank. Which also bought, from Ratner's firm, the naming rights to the planned arena.
That is why that sale by the MTA makes sense. If the arena is, as proposed, called the Barclay Center and the stop is renamed something like Atlantic Avenue/Barclay Center, it makes sense and will provide clear information to people making that trip. The MTA would probably rename that station anyway (as they did with "Mets-Willets Point," a change the Mets didn't pay for) so sure, get some money for it.
Naming stations after people, though, is just confusing.
Maybe they'll name a child day care center after him too.
Is City Councilwoman Letitia James trying to prove how utterly useless she is? Child molesters? Really? And PEOPLE VOTED FOR YOU??
I have to agree with interlard. The guy was not a good person - besides his incidents with children he was a drug addict who'd been on a downhill slide artistically since Thriller. Oh well....
There's already a Jackson Ave. stop in the Bronx, just pencil in the first name. Done deal.