Monday, October 5, 2020

A campaign to co-name part of St. Mark's Place after Jimmy Webb

There's a fledgling campaign underway to co-name part of St. Mark's Place after Jimmy Webb. (Thanks Cheryl for pointing this out!)

The online petition is here. The process of co-naming a street within the confines of Community Board 3 is explained on this PDF.

Webb, a familiar figure in the East Village during his long tenure as the manager and buyer at Trash & Vaudeville, died on April 14 of cancer. He was 62. 

He started working at his dream destination, Trash & Vaudeville, in 1999, and remained there until the shop relocated from St. Mark's Place to Seventh Street in 2016.  He opened I Need More in October 2017.

UPDATED 10/6

Apparently there are multiple campaigns underway. This one has nearly 1,500 signatures. 

Photo from 2013 by James Maher

11 comments:

Gojira said...

Signed.

Anonymous said...

signed!

Anonymous said...

Signed! RIP Jimmy.

Anonymous said...

Signed

Ronnie said...

Legend of St Marks... signed

Scooby said...

Signed. He needs to be honored by this naming.

Unknown said...

Weird, I saw and signed a similar petition that was going around, but this one was directed to DeBlasio (rather than to the City on NY), and has 1400+ signatures so far...
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bill-de-blasio-tell-nyc-to-rename-the-block-where-trash-n-vaudeville-was-jimmy-webb-place

lips said...

FUCK YESSSS!!!! I've known Jimmy since the 80's and he was pure love! This guy was the coolest guy I ever met and everyone should sign!

Anonymous said...

Naming streets after punks is whack but I’ll sign it just to piss off Marty the Sock Man :) He had the biggest jealous grudge against Jimmy after his store started selling hosiery by Look From London. It was a thing - those are expensive tights and Trash had better bigger buying power and sold them cheaper. So Sock Man just talked a lot of crap about poor Jimmy all the time. He called him Frankenstein.

Anonymous said...

Signed both petitions - vote early and vote often, as they say.

I love both Jimmy and Sock Man. Maybe they can split the block, lol.

Anonymous said...

Signed! Jimmy was a vital presence on St Marks Pl, reflecting a history of Punk and counter culture thats been developed into oblivion. Jimmy's ghost will gently but firmly haunt them.