NY Lawmaker To Propose Renaming Donald J. Trump State Park

YORKTOWN, NY — A Queens state lawmaker is proposing a bill to rename Donald J. Trump State Park in Yorktown Heights after the woman killed in Charlottesville. Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, D-District 25, wants to change the name of the park to Heather D. Heyer State Park.

Rozic said renaming the park for Heyer, who life was taken away by white supremacists, would show that the current name doesn’t reflect the “goals of uplifting and unifying New Yorkers,” BuzzFeed News said. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Heyer was killed Aug. 12 when a car plowed into a group of protesters during a white nationalist rally.

Police arrest Ohio resident James Alex Fields, 20.

Heyer was a paralegal at a law firm in Charlottesville.

President Trump has said in the past that he opposes renaming the 436-acre property, which he donated to the state in 2006.

It has never been open to the public as a park, but there are signs with Trump’s name along the Taconic State Parkway and at the entrances.

One assemblywoman — Sandra Galef — suggested simply removing the sign on the Taconic, since the park doesn’t really exist.

Read the BuzzFeed News article here.

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