The city removed a plaque honoring a convicted Nazi collaborator on Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes after deeming it a “tripping hazard” — and Jewish groups are outraged over a plan to return it, sources said Friday.
“It’s like putting asbestos back in a building,” Menachem Rosensaft, General Counsel Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, told The Post. “It’s even worse than ignoring it.”
The ticker tape parade marker honoring Pierre Laval — a former Prime Minister of France responsible for sending 70,000 jews from France to Nazi death camps during World War II — was temporarily yanked in November due to safety concerns, according to Rosensaft and past reports.
The plaque, along with 28 others that were temporarily removed due to shifting and freezing pavement, is set to be put back in place on lower Broadway after repairs…