The City of Albany, New York is looking to rename a section of the city known as the “Student Ghetto.” The area is downtrodden and notorious for crime, and city officials hope that by renaming the neighbourhood they will improve its reputation and help it change for the better because people will be more likely to invest in a neighbourhood with a positive sounding name. An internet poll was conducted to vote on some possible suggestions for a new name. “The Zone” was the suggestion that received the most votes, and other possible names include “Nomad” (because it is North of Madison Ave.) and “The Quad”. file renamer
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable is a very important person in the history of Chicago, and has recently had a landmark bridge in that city, The Michigan Avenue Bridge, renamed after him. DuSable was the son of a French Pirate and a Haitian slave, and was born in Haiti, in the French Colony of St. Dominique. He voyaged to America, where he built the first trading post in Chicago in 1779. He married a Potawatomi woman and had two children with her, becoming a high-ranking member of her tribe. The bridge is located where DuSable built his home in the 1780s. file renamer
‘Lenin Square Station’, one of the central subway stations in the city of Minsk, Belarus is the subject of a protest by opposition youth group Malady Front. They will be holding a demonstration in Independence Square on November 7, which is the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup.The group say that the fact that the station bears the name of Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin is offensive to the many who were harmed and killed by the Soviet regime, and want the subway station renamed. “We can’t accept the fact that one of our central subway stations bears the name of the initiator of the ‘red terror,” stated Malady Front activist Eduard Lobaw during an interview with local news source BelaPAN. file renamer
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