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Tired of the endless jokes, some residents of Greenwich, Conn., are petitioning to change the name of "Hooker Lane." 7f5I5j
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Sandy Sterling, standing at the end of her driveway, may need to change her mailbox. A vote is scheduled for Monday on giving her street a new name: Stonebrook Lane. cp*J^
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A Name Change to Protect the Innocent
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GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 18 - Those who walk the street on Hooker Lane here in the Cos Cob section of town are people of the L. L. Bean-wearing, exercise-the-dog sort, and they're tired of the giggles and the borscht belt zingers that follow the mere mention of their address.i%
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"When you order something from a catalog, for example, and you give the street, there's snickering, always snickering," said Nick Kopeloff, 66, a retired physician and an avid photographer, who has endured 27 years of such reactions.;+`>s
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"Well, there's 'You live on Prostitute Street,' that's typical," said Brendan O'Connor, a cherub-faced 12-year-old, whose world-weary tone belied his tender age.8rVDx
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"It's grating," his mother, Lisa O'Connor, said.l^Wu-H
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It's so grating that the residents want to change the name. In recent months, they gathered signatures of 9 of the street's 11 homeowners on a petition seeking the change. This Monday, the Representative Town Meeting - consisting of 230 people elected to represent the town's 12 districts - is scheduled to vote on rechristening the street Stonebrook Lane. For a town where Lacoste shirts and country club memberships are a virtual birthright, even the genesis of the new name seems apt: a resident suggested it after spotting the name in a new Westchester development on his way home from playing golf.&,"V
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But not everyone on this sylvan street - where the architecture evokes the film "The Ice Storm," set in Fairfield County - wants its name changed.=J:e}
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One resident, Gail Tomberg, a recent widow, felt she had had enough change in her life and told the Board of Selectmen so at a meeting a few weeks ago. In an interview, Ms. Tomberg, who has lived on Hooker Lane since 1969, said: "It's a big disruption. It's almost ridiculous. I have three boys, and they didn't suffer because of the name."f:jX
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In addition, a lawyer who has lived on the street for 35 years, David Albert, raised the possibility that the name had a historic antecedent. After all, Connecticut boasts the Colonial minister the Rev. Thomas Hooker. But it turned out that the man who had developed the first homes here in the late 1960's was married to a woman whose family name was Hooker, residents said.-BI)
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Dr. Kopeloff said the naughty association of the street name never really bothered him until his neighbors noted that it might hurt property values. "That made me change my mind," he said.#
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Echoing other mothers, another resident, Jane Olenchuk, said both of her children had been taunted at school. "My son's a skater, and the kids at the park always say, 'Dude, you must be kidding,' when he tells them where he lives," she said.gDxf
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From the passenger side of her mother's van, another resident, 12-year-old Rebecca Schreff, fairly whispered, "The kids at school always tease me about it."i
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If the name is changed, residents said, they will have one less headache, since in addition to inducing giggles, the name on the street sign attracts thieves. The sign has been stolen more times than anyone can remember. In response, it was moved to a telephone pole, at the height of a crow's nest.[}-H-a
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The Greenwich first selectman, Jim Lash, said it was very rare that anyone here sought to have a street name changed. Was he ever bothered by the street name in question? "I don't pay much attention to those things," Mr. Lash said.q
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For residents of Hooker Lane, the campaign for the name change served to introduce neighbors who had previously greeted one another only with a wave. There were roadside chats, and a dinner party or two.b3[db
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"I introduced myself to my neighbor of seven years, someone I had never spoken to," Dr. Kopeloff said. "It was good for all of us."V_ H 3
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From more than 30 names, all as bland as vanilla pudding, they winnowed down the list and took a vote. Stonebrook Lane was the victor.$p3xY
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Dr. Kopeloff said it has a "nice, innocuous ring to it."aJeHR
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Ms. Olenchuk, a 14-year resident, was more direct. "Who cares?" she said, a springer spaniel at her heels as she unloaded her car in her driveway. "Anything is better than 'Hooker.' "[Js
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