tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post5241887065240505377..comments2024-03-28T07:54:47.319-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: What's in a Name?Carole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-10503790690051057092022-08-23T17:45:38.398-04:002022-08-23T17:45:38.398-04:00So true. Should have left Tom Mabley's sign a...So true. Should have left Tom Mabley's sign alone. So many sign's, the self-named 'Ricky's Point' should go. Who makes these decisions? Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10964219905365378579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-33537088410634146232022-08-22T11:14:15.544-04:002022-08-22T11:14:15.544-04:00Tom Mabley's design reflected his great good t...Tom Mabley's design reflected his great good taste, though he was lucky not to have to factor in extraneous information like the "action" committee marring the recto of the new Water Street sign. <br /><br />Tom also employed a stately font which is less in thrall to the aesthetics of bargain-basement advertising than the vulgar "F" featured on the new sign's new name. (No matter who's in charge, Hudson rarely draws upon its plentiful stock of artists to avoid such pitfalls.) <br /><br />As to the park's name, in 2010, Charles Houghton who owns (or previously owned?) Elco Motor Yachts across the river expressed dismay that "Henry Hudson Riverfront Park" was so predictable and unimaginative. There are many things named after Henry Hudson, and perhaps the city's namesake was not such a wonderful fellow.<br /><br />Houghton suggested instead that the park should be named after Hudson's Master's Mate, ROBERT JUET, the eloquent chronicler of the voyage up North [Hudson] River whose journals would capture the minds of so many Europeans. <br /><br />There's nothing to memorialize Juet other than his own fascinating words. And naming something so important in Hudson's own city after the man who attended Hudson on three voyages then allegedly marooned him seems suitably cheeky for the city's past and present residents.<br /><br />If we're not renaming the entire park, then why not change the self-named "Rick's Point," previously a car dump whose landscaping in 2010 evaded every level of environmental review. <br /><br />If not the Robert Juet Waterfront Park, then "Rick's Point" could be marooned and renamed "Juet's Point."<br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-85232777361141331882022-08-21T15:45:36.821-04:002022-08-21T15:45:36.821-04:00Personally I would demand that the older sign be r...Personally I would demand that the older sign be returned and presented. On the City's website the name has already been changed to: "Henry Hudson Waterfront Park, accessible by Broad Street."Chad Wecklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15721057452000779552noreply@blogger.com