ANDY: CIVIL TO RENAME ROADS

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday called on the Army to reconsider its recent decision not to rename two streets in Brooklyn honoring Civil War Confederate generals. “Renaming these streets will send a clear message that in New York, we stand against intolerance and racism, whether it be insidious and hidden or obvious and intentional,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to Acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy. The Army on Aug. 7 denied requests from New York congressional members to change the names of Stonewall Jackson Drive and General Lee Ave. on the Fort Hamilton Army Base, the city’s only active military post. Jackson and Lee had served there in the 1840s before taking up arms against the country in the Civil War. Cuomo in his letter asked McCarthy to reconsider in the wake of “the violence and terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the resulting emboldening of the voices of Nazis and white supremacists.” Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the presumptive Republican mayoral candidate, said the streets should be renamed after Congressional Medal of Honor winners.