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A park in Brooklyn Heights has been named after Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys
by Aaron Zorgel
May 3, 2013
On what is nearly the one year anniversary of his death, a park and playground in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed after Adam "MCA" Yauch, of the Beastie Boys.
photo via Twitter
On what is nearly the one year anniversary of his death, a park and playground in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed after Adam “MCA” Yauch, of the Beastie Boys.
Brooklyn’s Palmetto Playground was renamed after MCA today, at a small naming ceremony attended by NYC Parks & Rec officials, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Ad-Rock, Beastie Boys manager John Silva, and Yauch’s mother, who told everyone that Yauch actually learned to ride a bike at that same playground during a short speech.
According to the New York Post, the movement to rename Palmetto Playground “Adam Yauch Park” grew out of a post on the Brooklyn Heights Blog that caught a lot of fan attention on Facebook.
Check out some photos of the newly-renamed Adam Yauch Park below, courtesy of Twitter user @stephen_nessen. Brooklyn, it looks like you finally have a place to go where you can sip the def ale with all the fly women.
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