Army refuses to rename Fort Hamilton streets
Lee Avenue, Stonewall Jackson Drive to stay
U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke reacted angrily to the Pentagon’s refusal to rename two streets on U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton that memorialize Civil War Confederate generals, calling the military’s reasoning “nonsense.”
Clarke (D-Central Brooklyn) and other elected officials had been pushing military brass to strip the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the streets on Fort Hamilton. The lawmakers contended that since the Confederacy fought to uphold slavery, Lee and Jackson do not deserve to have streets named in their honor.
Fort Hamilton, located in Bay Ridge, has a Lee Avenue and a Stonewall Jackson Drive.