Posted on September 22, 2020 at 8:40 pm by Carol Tannenhauser
Photograph from The Columbia Spectator.
By Carol Tannenhauser
City Councilman Mark Levine is introducing legislation to co-name the street where Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived when she was a Columbia law student — 116th Street — “RBG Way.” Ginsburg, who died on Friday, may have grown up in Brooklyn, but she also spent important years on this side of the river.
RBG was from Brooklyn, but she spent some of her formative years in Manhattan–living at 404 W 116 St. It was here that she emerged as a fierce fighter for equal rights under the law.
This legacy should be honored. We're introducing legislation to co-name the street "RBG Way". pic.twitter.com/BKoIn7PBw8
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) September 22, 2020
Ginsburg lived on 116th when she was attending Columbia Law School, where she had transferred after starting at Harvard.
In a biography of the , Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, author Jane Sherron de Hart wrote of the personal side of that period of her life, and her love of the Metropolitan Opera:
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