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A Street Named Joey..

 
 
rizla mission
14:59 / 23.11.01
quote:
The corner of East Second Street and the Bowery in the East Village, just a few steps from legendary punk haven CBGBs, will be known as Joey Ramone Place.

Twenty-year-old Staten Island resident Maureen Wojciechowski brought the proposal to Community Board 3's attention in October and was asked to come back with a petition signed by local residents and businesses supporting her plan to honor the late punk icon, who died in April, she returned with more than 300 signatures and left with a unanimous decision by the board's Public Safety and Transportation Committee in favor of the homage.

The street sign will be erected within a year, likely on a date significant to Joey Ramone's life, such as his birthday. The date will be determined by Ramone's family and the Department of Transportation.


Some lucky New Yorkers are going to have the coolest address in the entire world..
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
15:05 / 23.11.01
aw cool...that's only a couple blocks from where I currently live. neat.
 
 
rizla mission
15:10 / 23.11.01
First you live in a 'punk venue' where Kathleen Hanna used to have parties, then you live just down the road from Joey Ramone Place .. honestly, you New York folk..
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
17:35 / 23.11.01
Um, just to clarify, Hanna was just a guest at a few of the parties/shows that were at the loft, she had no part in their organization. She did have a part in blackballing the place so that virtually no female artists would play there after her gossip campaign - mind you, this venue was run entirely by girls.

I guess she just preferred the (still currently existing) DUMBA lesbian art commune down the street better...
 
 
rizla mission
12:09 / 26.11.01
%Oh, well that's different then. That's not cool at all. Happens all the time in Norwich or Bolton.%
 
  
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