{"id":1491,"date":"2013-05-23T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2013-05-23T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:04:41","slug":"how-will-harlem-honor-willie-mays-two-councilmen-pitch-different-streets-to-rename-in-giant-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"HOW WILL HARLEM HONOR WILLIE MAYS? TWO COUNCILMEN PITCH DIFFERENT STREETS TO RENAME IN GIANT HONOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBY MICHAEL J. FEENEY \/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
\nOne wants a street near legendary center fielder’s old home. Another wants a highway service road near where the old Polo Grounds used to stand.
\nThanks to NYGPS Member Greg Prince for finding this!!<\/p>\n

Somehow, an easy can of corn has become a political hot potato in Harlem. There are currently two completely different proposals before the City Council to co-name a street for legendary New York Giants slugger Willie Mays \u2014 one at the 82-year-old Hall of Famer’s St. Nicholas Pl. home and the other on a highway service road near the Polo Grounds. Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez favors the service road location, but found himself stranded at third when Councilman Robert Jackson later pushed the 80 St. Nicholas Pl. location because, as he put it, \u201cWillie Mays did not live on that service road.\u201d And the baseball giant\u2019s son knows which proposal is the better one: \u201cIt\u2019s historically correct that he lived on St. Nicholas Pl.,\u201d said Michael Mays, 54. \u201cThat would be the proper place (to honor him).\u201d Under Jackson\u2019s plan, the stretch between W. 153rd and W. 155th Sts. would be co-named \u201cWillie Mays Place.\u201d The other location \u2014 which would be called \u201cWillie Mays Drive\u201d \u2014 is located along a Harlem River Drive service road starting at Edgecombe Ave. and W. 155th St. Michael Mays said he was not sure why the service road was even suggested. \u201cI don\u2019t know what it has to do with anything. I don\u2019t really know where that idea came from,\u201d the Washington Heights resident said, referring to the desolate service road. That location was initially approved by Community Board 10 in 2008, but it has been stalled. Jackson and Michael Mays now hope to get the name change approved before Major League Baseball\u2019s All-Star Game, which will be played at Citi Field on July 16. Rodriguez issued a statement late Tuesday trying to toss a tarp over the controversy, saying both locations should be named for Mays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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