The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to [email protected].
Question:
Dear Mr. Mayor:
I’ve noticed many times contractors are pressed and desperate for a street name at the very last minute. Many times they just choose their 3 year old’s name or names of cars. I’ve compiled a short list of people who have made a difference to our community that would be worthy of, at least a street name. I’m sure there’s many, many more. I hope the construction people will take note of this:
Bob Menendez – Governor
Patrick Moinehan a friend of the community
Meir Orlean – part founder Bais Yaakov Movement
Sugihara save many Jews from WWII
Zeev Rothschild community activist
Ariel Smith Ball Player
Skidmore founder Lakewood
Erastus Dickinson Named Lakewood
Grover Cleveland Died in Lakewood
Jerome Gertner former Judge many years
Daniel Spagnuola Officer who saved an 18 year old from burning vehicle
Mookie Wilson famous ball player
John Rockefeller donated OC Park
Chris Smith
Ari Weichbrod EMS
Sydney krupnick famous Real Estate
Ngô Đình Diệm Vietnam President exiled to Lakewood
Launa Mitchell oldest woman in America Lakewood resident
Sheldon Wolpin Mr Lakewood
Michael Inzelbach Self Explanatory
PG Waxman
Rabbi Murray Maslaton founder of the Sephardi Community in Lakewood
Nathan Tawil Saved Rabbi Kotler in Japan
Betzalel Klugmann – The Tzadik from Freehold
Rich Roberts
Robert Woods
Rabbi Trenk
I hope this helps:
Sincerely,
The Namer Guy
Response from Mayor Coles:
Thank you for this exhaustive list!
We do not have final say over new street names, but I will ask that prospective developers be given a copy of the list to see some possibilities
Ray
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Forget Menendez and Rockefeller, add Gissinger and Eiseman.
Coles Way (oops. Have one already)
Flannery Ave – Got one too
Kotler Blvd
Menash Street (to name the opening of Arlington that was vacated 🙂 )
Vaad Lane
Developers Row (Get it? Row = fight)
Is this meant to be a joke?
There were maybe 2 names that made an iota of sense
Bob Menendez is not a governor he’s a senator.
there are a number of factual inaccuracies written there.
Interesting to name after living people…….
This article gave me a good laugh..
Grover Cleveland did not die in Lakewood, rather in his Princeton home.
The clown who wrote this thought it meant his home on Princeton instead of in Princeton
It must be that all of the other “crises” facing the community are solved, if it’s now time to focus on street names.
Why are tandem street names picked
I would suggest every neighborhood gets a theme.
Flowers: tulip lane, rose bush lane, sunflower street etc…
Herbs: sage lane. Rosemarie lane etc…
Insects: butterfly rd, etc…
Prettier names and easy to pronounce
etc…
I love this letter. It is so nice that the writer thought of honoring important people with street names, as is commonly done. And his list is very nice, with a big mix of names that made me smile. Why did people have to criticize or make fun of this letter? Noone said this is the most important problem, but on the contrary, it’s a welcome break from the other complaint letters to the Mayor.
Personally, I love the Westgate streets named for cities in Europe – Brisk, Kletzk, etc. The flowers/insects/herbs idea is also good.