NY Lawmaker Pitches Ban on Naming Public Buildings After Felons — to Avoid Renaming Penn Station After Trump

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  1. As per [original article](https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/nyc-lawmaker-pitches-ban-naming-public-buildings-after-felons-to-avoid-renaming-penn-station-after-trump/) 📰:

    – State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D-Manhattan) is considering introducing a bill to ban public buildings from being named after convicted felons — in a move to stop Penn Station from being renamed after President Trump.

    The idea — first reported by Politico — arose after Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’d be fine renaming the Midtown transit hub to “Trump Station” if the president can get its long-stalled makeover done.

    “I don’t think public officials who are convicted of a felony should have any state or municipal building named after them,” Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes half the sprawling complex, told The Post Monday.

    “We must hold our government officials to the highest standard and the names of our public facilities should reflect those values.”

    Trump became the first felon commander in chief after a Big Apple jury last year found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to hush-money payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels.

    The prospect of renaming Penn Station after Trump arose as the president and Hochul haggled over the multibillion dollar megaproject.

    The talks eventually led to Trump’s shocking move nearly two weeks ago to fire the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from the project and put the feds in charge.

    Hochul then moved to pull $1.3 billion in state funds from the project — as she contended the feds now carry the responsibility for completing the long-promised revamp.

    She said Friday that she’s more worried about getting the project done than whether it’ll be called “Trump Station.”

    “It would not be my favorite thing to call it, but it’ll save us $1.3 billion that I’m not planning to spend,” Hochul told reporters.

  5. Delete the word rape from the dictionary and call it trump, something I can get behind

  8. There is a sewage treatment plant in the town next to me. No issue if we name it Trump Sewage Center on my end. Actually let’s jump start calling all sewage treatment centers Trump.

    When I think of Trump I always think he is full of shit.

  9. Sounds like a good idea, but a lot of our Civil Rights leaders are felons because of dubious legal reasons.

  10. make it parks too so we can get his name off the one upstate

  13. Like anyone would seriously stop calling it Penn station.

    Be honest, how many people actually call it the Willis Tower and not the Sears tower? And that’s not even that divisive of a name. LOL

  14. Does this mean that there is hope to rename the Mario Cuomo bridge back to the Tappan Zee Bridge?!

  15. Republicans are wiping their ass with the constitution, what makes them think this ban will matter?

  17. Yeah let’s rename something iconic after an orange moron.

  18. Ok… Trump promises funding if the station is renamed Trump Station, right? Who else thinks he’ll actually give the funding? Don’t everybody raise your hands at once……

  19. Solid. No one (in their right mind) can meaningfully argue against the idea.

    So Republicans will definitely argue against it.

  24. I don’t like that.

    We’re probably going to see a lot of progressive people who fight for civil justice labeled as felons by this administration.

  25. How would it work if there is someone else named Donald Trump?

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