Rename Chrystie Street in NYC for Someone who Actually Mattered

Chrystie Street was named after John Chrystie, who was a lieutenant in the Battle of Queenston Heights. After crossing enemy lines that were secured by other American troops, he and his crew panicked, and fled back over the US border, stranding the leftover American troops to surrender. Although he left his own troops to be captured, he was promoted to Colonel, and had a street named after him. Margot Gayle was an activist and preservationist that besides living there, was very active in the SoHo area. In the years 1970 to 1971, Gayle created the The Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture, in order to stop Robert Moses’s plan to create an expressway that would connect to I-78, and in the process, utterly destroy most of SoHo, including Chrystie St. If you live or visit NYC, you can see that she succeeded, leaving a beautiful part of the city still intact. John Chrystie did nothing for America, let alone NYC, so let’s commemorate someone who actually mattered to this city.