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
Signed.
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ReplyDeleteSigned! RIP Jimmy.
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ReplyDeleteLegend of St Marks... signed
ReplyDeleteSigned. He needs to be honored by this naming.
ReplyDeleteWeird, 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...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.change.org/p/mayor-bill-de-blasio-tell-nyc-to-rename-the-block-where-trash-n-vaudeville-was-jimmy-webb-place
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!
ReplyDeleteNaming 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.
ReplyDeleteSigned both petitions - vote early and vote often, as they say.
ReplyDeleteI love both Jimmy and Sock Man. Maybe they can split the block, lol.
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.
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