Naming a street Jane Jacobs Way is all well and good. It is even of interest that “the townhouse that Jacobs lived in on the street is for sale.” Except Jane Jacobs moved here, lived here, and died here. Calling Jacobs a New Yorker even decades after she left seems much worse than insisting that, say, Jim Carrey is still “a Canadian.”
Kottke has a whole category of posts spinning the myth that Jacobs spent her whole life working for the betterment of New York City. In reality, she left.
Could it be, could it just very possibly be, that New York isn’t Number 1 in every single thing?
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