Those in Trump Tower will soon look down to see “Black Lives Matter” painted in large letters on the street in front of the property.
New York City plans to paint the words outside the mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets. Julia Arredondo, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, told the Daily News that the location was chosen on purpose.
“The president is a disgrace to the values we cherish in New York City,” she said in a statement. “He can’t run or deny the reality we are facing, and any time he wants to set foot in the place he claims is his hometown, he should be reminded Black Lives Matter.”
New York has followed Washington, D.C.’s lead after the city painted the same words in bright yellow lettering near the White House. De Blasio announced earlier this month that the phrase would be painted in each of the city’s boroughs.
“A proposal put on the table was to name streets in each borough and to paint the words on the streets of this city — in each borough, at a crucial location,” the mayor said at the time. “What will be clear in the street name and on the streets of our city is that message that now our city must fully, fully, deeply feel, and this nation must as well, that black lives matter.”
