DOT Says Illegal Sonny Carson Street Signs In Brooklyn Will Come Down
The Department of Transportation says doctored street signs in Brooklyn – posted in protest of the city's refusal to rename a street after a controversial local figure – will be replaced starting next week.
The fake signs were posted at three spots along Gates Avenue by community members after a proposal to rename a portion of the Brooklyn street for civil rights activist Sonny Carson failed to pass. The decals read "Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue" and have been up since February.
DOT officials say that City Council did not approve the signs and deemed them illegal. Carson was a well-known member of Bedford-Stuyvesant who led protests against police brutality in the 1980s and founded the Black Men's Movement Against Crack. In 1974 he was arrested on murder and kidnapping charges, but was only convicted of the latter.
In May of last year, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn turned down the proposal to name the street in his honor, but supporters say the process was unfair.
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