Brooklyn Municipal Building To Be Renamed For Ruth Bader Ginsburg

BROOKLYN, NY — The Brooklyn Municipal Building will soon be renamed for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

"We want to make sure we honor her in every conceivable way, and especially in the borough that she came from," de Blasio said. "What an extraordinary opportunity to say to the people of Brooklyn, ‘Here’s one of your own, who changed the world.'"

The mayor's announcement follows years of calls from local officials to rename the Joralemon Street building, which houses city offices, in honor of Ginsburg.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams held a rally in the form of a birthday party for Ginsburg outside Borough Hall last year to demand the mayor support the idea.

"Today, I am glad to hear that the Mayor has heeded our call," Adams said Tuesday. "With Justice Ginsburg's recent passing, this is a bittersweet moment. But I take heart in knowing that young girls and boys who pass by the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Brooklyn Municipal Building will know her name, learn from her example, and pick up the baton to run their own relay toward a more just, equitable, and fair America."

The renaming is the second way officials have said they will honor the late justice in her native borough since she died on Friday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he will commission a statue for Ginsburg in Brooklyn.

Ginsburg, then Joan Ruth Bader, was born at what is now called Maimonides Medical Center on 10th Avenue on March 15, 1933.

She grew up in a house on East Ninth Street in Midwood just a short walk from P.S. 238, where she went before heading to James Madison High School, according to a summary of her time in Brooklyn on Untapped Cities.

Ginsburg and her family were members of the East Midwood Jewish Center.

After graduating sixth in her class at James Madison, Ginsburg headed to Cornell University, where she met her husband Martin "Marty" Ginsburg. She would enroll in Harvard Law School a few years after graduating.