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Intersection on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to be named in honor of Shimon Peres
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Former president Shimon Peres during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015. (AP Photo/ Dan Balilty, File)
Shimon Peres may have never lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, but soon the late Israeli leader will have a New York City street corner named in his honor.
The intersection of West 95th Street and Riverside Drive will be renamed “Shimon Peres Place” after the New York City Council approved nearly 200 new street names last week to honor various people.
The news was reported by Patch, which notes that while Peres never lived in the city permanently, he did study at both New York University and the New School and frequently visited New York.
Peres, who died in 2016, served three times as Israel’s prime minister in addition to serving as president of the country from 2007 to 2014.
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