In Which The Power Of Re-Branding Is Used For Good

[serinde]

The so-called "Freedom Tower", replacing WTC, is now no longer the so-called Freedom Tower, but the actually-called 1 WTC. Thank you.

Now if we could just scrape the "Liberty" off of Newark, we'd really be getting somewhere.

Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I can only wish the same will hold true for the TRIBOROUGH

TRIBOROUGH

bridge.

[caelfinn.livejournal.com]

Heh, sometimes I call the FDR Drive the East Side Drive because that's what I learned from my the ex-taxi driver who grew up in the Bronx.

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a habit solely cultivated by people who still harbor a grudge against FDR.

[caelfinn.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't remember my Dad being anti-FDR. He lived through the depression (born in 1921) and I would imagine he would have welcomed the New Deal.

Oh, I just realized I typo'd my comment. I meant to say my *Dad* the ex-taxi driver who grew up in the Bronx. Duh.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

You mean they renamed the bridge while I wasn't looking, or is it a borough/boro thing?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

They dubbed it for RFK last summer. It was met with a vast stare of indifference.

I have heard it said that this drips with irony, because RFK was agin this kind of thing, but further deponent knoweth not.