Push to honor Otto Warmbier by renaming street outside North Korean UN mission gets bipartisan support
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The North Korean mission to the United Nations is located in a Manhattan office building at 820 Second Avenue, just one block from the U.N. Now, there are growing calls to change the building's address to: 820 "Otto Warmbier Way."
"Manhattanites – and all New Yorkers – have always cared about the larger world because so many of us came from elsewhere," said Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer. "So it's personal for us to always seek justice on the global stage. The Kim Jong Un regime's torture of Otto Warmbier should never be forgotten, and co-naming Second Avenue from 43rd to 44th streets is one small way we can keep Otto's memory alive." Otto was a 22-year-old University of Virginia student on an educational tour of North Korea when he was falsely arrested, tortured and sent home to Cincinnati severely brain-damaged and unable to speak or hear. He died of his injuries on June 19, 2017. Had he lived, he would be a New Yorker by now. He was set to intern at the financial firm Millstein and Company when he was grabbed, and planned to move to Manhattan after graduation to work on Wall Street.More Related News
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