{"id":3379,"date":"2014-02-22T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2014-02-22T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:25:33","slug":"attempts-to-rename-street-after-big-pun-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Attempts to Rename Street after Big Pun Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pun.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3380\" alt=\"pun\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pun.jpg?resize=250%2C245\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a>A Street unofficially named after rapper Big Pun has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>For a short time last week, a Longwood street corner was unofficially renamed &#8220;Big Pun Place&#8221; in honor or Bronx rapper Big Pun.<\/p>\n<p>A super fan, Shane Rossi, bought an official-looking street sign from the city\u2019s Department of Transportation website, and strung it up at corner of E. 163rd St. and Rogers Place on the eve of the 14th anniversary of Pun&#8217;s death.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, thee sign, suspended by zip ties in the middle of the night, was removed this week by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts by Pun&#8217;s family to officially rename the corner have stalled in the past, when community members came out against the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that he did more than people give him credit for,\u201d Rossi said of Pun. \u201cI just want (the city) to know that there is still interest and people haven\u2019t forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rossi, who bought the sign more than a year ago, said he attempted to hang the sign last February but was scared off by a pair of cops on patrol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole premise was to not disrespect anyone,\u201d the 27-year-old said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an insult or a jab at the right way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Community Boards also shot down recent attempts to get streets officially renamed in honor of the Beastie Boys, in Manhattan, and Notorious B.I.G., in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Cops aren\u2019t looking to charge Rossi, according to a police source.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Street unofficially named after rapper Big Pun has been removed. For a short time last week, a Longwood street corner was unofficially renamed &#8220;Big Pun Place&#8221; in honor or Bronx rapper Big Pun. A <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=3379\" title=\"Attempts to Rename Street after Big Pun Denied\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-pun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-Sv","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}