Should the New Hudson River Bridge Be Named for Pete Seeger?

An online petition to New York state officials, asking them to name the new bridge being built from Nyack to Tarrytown after Pete Seeger, has collected more than 7,000 signatures. 

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner has been keeping Patch updated on the petition's progress since he first called for the idea on Jan. 30. 

Seeger, who died Jan. 27, was deeply involved in the environmental movement to clean up the Hudson River, and was one of the founders of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the annual music festival named after it.

But there are plenty of Patch commenters who disagree with the proposal. 

In response to Feiner's first post about it on Tarrytown Patch, Janet Carroll said she thought that a park would be more appropriate, given Seeger's involvement with Hudson Valley environmental causes. 

Meg Wilson said she was tired of the whole renaming bridges thing, citing the rebirth of the Triboro. 

Karen Ringen wasn't sure Seeger would be impressed with a bridge that didn't have mass-transit options. 

If any bridge is going to be named after Seeger, said Harris Bank, in response to one of Feiner's later posts updating people, it should be the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, since Seeger lived in Beacon. That bridge is already named after someone—Hamilton Fish. 

Check out the petition here.