The street sign noting "Jodie Lane Place" on the northwest corner of East 11th Street and First Avenue is missing, The Villager reports today.
Per the report:
Scott Gastel, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation, told The Villager he didn’t believe there was any connection between the installation of the new-style cantilever signs and the disappearance of the Jodie Lane Place co-naming sign and the other traditional-style street signs that had been attached to that pole. It looks like the signs were removed with a hacksaw — a thin, jagged strip of green from the removed signs can still be seen.
On Monday, in an e-mail, Gastel assured The Villager that a sign honoring Lane, plus the other removed signs, will be put back up on the pole.
Lane was a 30-year-old doctoral candidate at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University. During the late afternoon of Jan. 16, 2004, Lane, who lived on East 12th Street with her boyfriend, was walking her dogs. She was electrocuted on a snow-covered Con Edison junction box on the southwest corner of 11th Street at First Avenue.
The street was named in her honor in the spring of 2005.
Read more about the Jodie S. Lane Public Safety Foundation here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
In Memoriam: Roger M. Lane
4 comments:
I believe Jodie lived on E 12th.
@ mazzer
Correct. I changed that in the post.
Every time I saw that sign I thought of Jodie Foster. Maybe it's because she was in the movie "The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane."
Don't disrespect the dead SMDH.
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