Mr. Trump’s comments have become a lightning rod as well. On the change.org petition, many signers — including people in Westchester County and New York City, but some from as far away as Idaho and Alabama — have cited his remarks during the presidential campaign.
“I grew up in Yorktown and my parents still live there,” Rebecca Capua of Brooklyn, who signed the petition, wrote on change.org. “It was bad enough having this park named after him before he ran for president. Why don’t we name it after Mussolini or someone less terrible?”