{"id":6805,"date":"2011-11-20T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2011-11-20T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T14:11:30","slug":"what_was_wrong_with_liberty_plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/11\/what_was_wrong_with_liberty_plaza.html","title":{"rendered":"What Was Wrong With &#8220;Liberty Plaza&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with renaming places for people who are still alive is that anything off-message that happens there could mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/john-zuccotti-worries-occupy-wall-st-protest-legacy-months-rallying-namesake-park-article-1.980245\">one&#8217;s &#8220;legacy is forever intertwined, if not over-shadowed&#8221; by said events<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>John Zuccotti, 74, is co-chair of global real estate giant Brookfield Properties, the owner of the half-acre slice of pink granite and honey locust trees the Occupy Wall Street movement took over.<\/p>\n<p>And even though the NYPD removed the tent city that crammed the park, friends say Zuccotti worries his legacy is forever intertwined, if not over-shadowed by the showdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was very worried about it,[&#8220;] former Mayor Ed Koch told the Daily News after speaking with Zuccotti recently. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Everybody knows my name, Zuccotti, not because of what I&#8217;ve done as an individual, but because of the park.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a difficult time for him,[&#8220;] Koch said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in the eyes of the populist OWS protest, he&#8217;s now considered part of the problem &#8212; a member of the countrys wealthiest 1%.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Better to stick to old tried-and-true names &#8212; George Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/if_there_is_any_way_properly_respect_our_nations_first_president_its_naming_a_3-acre_park_in_brooklyn_for_him.html\">for example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with renaming places for people who are still alive is that anything off-message that happens there could mean one&#8217;s &#8220;legacy is forever intertwined, if not over-shadowed&#8221; by said events: John Zuccotti, 74, is co-chair of global real estate giant Brookfield Properties, the owner of the half-acre slice of pink granite and honey locust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}