One, to leave the decorations alone, was meant to appease the region’s traditionalists, according to Benjamin Branham, the chief communications officer at the Port Authority. There’s also an option to move the tree from the N to the A, as Mr. Windelspecht’s petition urged. But for Mr. Windelspecht and the hundreds who have signed his petition or commented about it on social media, the spacing wasn’t something that stood out to them. “They went out of the way to put the wreath over the O and a wreath over the U to match it,” he said. (He said in an interview on Wednesday that he struggled with the disorder as a child.)

Source: New York Times December 13, 2018 10:00 UTC