In 2004, plaques were installed to commemorate honorees of each Canyon of Heroes ticker tape parade — including two Nazis.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Two French Nazis are honored with granite plaques in Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes — and local leaders want them removed.
The one-mile stretch of Broadway between Bowling Green and the Woolworth Building has built-in signs commemorating all the city’s ticker tape parades dating back to 1886. It’s New York’s version of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Pétain and Laval became top officials in France's Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazi occupiers and helped deport an estimated 75,000 Jews who were sent to death camps.
Rosensaft, who was born in a camp for displaced people in Germany and whose parents were Holocaust survivors, said he’s raised the issue with senior city government officials for years, but to no avail., created under Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017, convened to “address monuments seen as oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City.”
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