And this comes at a time when these people are getting gentrified out of downtown. Does not make sense!

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Don't worry too much, it's just an additional sign over the regular one. It's cheap vote pandering, but not as much as actually changing Grove to Manila to pander to the Filipino voters. Is there a black neighborhood in the USA that doesn't have an MLK st-blvd-ave? I'll bet Liberty Ave had a German name in 1913. There was a nationwide renaming of streets (and German Shepherds named Kaiser) to Liberty & Victory.

Really wish they'd stop doing this. It's confusing for out of towners, in addition to the entirely unnecessary name change of Coles and Erie at Columbus. There are better ways to honor people.

Monmouth Street from York Street to Montgomery Street will be named for former Ward E Councilman Jaime Vazquez today.

?Jaime Vazquez Way? will be dedicated today with a ceremony and community celebration from 4 pm to 8 pm. Guests can enjoy food, music, face painting and balloons at the event.

Vazquez, who served from 1985 to 1997, recently ran in November for the two at-large seats on the City Council which eventually went to Rolando Lavarro and Viola Richardson. During his campaign for the at-large seats, he told JCI he wanted to make re-establishing the city?s youth and family services division in all six wards a key priority. He also said he would propose trying to push the Port Authority to impose a ?25 cents levy on every vehicle that passes through the Holland Tunnel? into Manhattan to generate up to an estimated $3 million in new revenues annually.

The Vietnam War vet is the director of veteran affairs for the city.
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... councilman-jaime-vazquez/