George Carlin honored with street name, but local church isn't happy

George Carlin honored with street name, but local church isn't happy
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It was just supposed to be one block, but a clerical error has extended George Carlin Way to two blocks in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood. Due to this mistake, the church he attended as a child — and skewered onstage as a comedian — is now standing on this extra stretch, despite protests.

Comic Kevin Bartini, who spearheaded the campaign to honor Carlin with a street name, says the comedian "would have been tickled by all of this. I think he would have loved every moment."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.