The City section has an article by Alex Mindlin about the community effort to change the name of JJ Byrne’s namesake park (at Third Street and Fifth Avenue) to Washington Park. Kim Maier, director of The Old Stone House is, of course, quoted.

“It’s always ‘Who was J. J. Byrne?’ ” said Kimberly Maier, executive director of the Old Stone House, a historical center in a 17th-century farmhouse in the little park.

Like many other local residents, Ms. Maier has supported a move to strip the park of the name of Mr. Byrne, a Brooklyn borough president elected in 1926 who died in office four years later. Instead, the park would be named Washington Park, as it was in the 1880s, when it was home to the baseball team that would become the Dodgers. That name is a nod to the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, in which British and American forces fought for control of the farmhouse.