(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 11, 2009 ) New York, USA - Forget about Los Angeles’ Walk of Fame on which celebrities only get one measly pavement slab – New York has gone one better and named an entire street after Irish rock band U2 in recognition of their musical achievements…
U2 can no longer sing ‘Where the streets have no name,’ because the streets now have names - and one of them is theirs.
West 53rd Street west of Broadway in Manhattan has been renamed ‘U2 Way’ for a short time to celebrate the band’s years at the top of the music industry and the release of their new album ‘No Line on the Horizon.’
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gave the band the street signs bearing their name at a ceremony.
The signs will remain up for a week whilst the band is in town to appear each night on CBS’ ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman.
Frontman Bono said, “We are honoured to be joining Manhattan’s musical map.
“The Beatles had Penny Lane, Elvis had Lonely Street and now we have the street between 10th Avenue and funky, funky Broadway,” he added.
Other streets named after musical legends in the Big Apple include Joey Ramone Place and Duke Ellington Boulevard, named after one of the most influential figures in jazz.
From a schoolyard in Dublin, Ireland, to a street corner in Manhattan – U2 have come a long way in the four decades they have been involved in music.
The group - Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, first got together in 1978 when they were a group of music mad school friends.
Some of New YorkÂ’s other streets have interesting meanings behind their names too. Canal Street in the Little Italy section of Manhattan got its name from a canal that was built in the beginning of the 19th Century to drain heavily polluted ponds.
Broadway, which is now home to hundreds of restaurants, theatres and shops, was given its current name due to its wide lanes, hence ‘Broad - way.’
It began life as the ‘Wickquasgeck Indian Trail,’ and was renamed ‘de Heere Straat’ by the Dutch before getting its final named of Broadway from the English.
Flatbush Avenue, which is one of Brooklyn’s busiest and most built up streets, is ironically derived from the Dutch word meaning ‘woodland.’
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