We’ve seen his name pried off the sides of buildings. We’ve seen companies stop doing business with him. We’ve seen every manner of people and places trying their best to distance themselves from former President Trump.

But this is a new one.

Usually you don’t hear success stories of politically-motivated petitions succeeding in getting what they want. Barack Obama’s White House famously shot down a massive petition that called on his administration to build a “death star” battle station.

Now a small petition in Manhattan has been declared victorious with just 1,600 signatures, with the goal of tearing down a Highway Beautification sign along the Henry Hudson Parkway with Trump’s name on it.

The petition, launched by Upper West Side resident Richard Robbins, declared:

It violates DOT’s own policy, stating that ‘Highways can be adopted by individuals, companies, or organizations (but not by political candidates and campaigns).’ The sign should have been removed in 2015 and should not be in place now, as Trump has stated an intention to run again in 2024.

As it turns out, 1,599 other people agreed — and so did both the Department of Transportation and the Manhattan Borough Commissioner, who wrote in a statement:

DOT has determined that the contract between the organization and the maintenance contractor expired on November 7 and will not be renewed. The existing sign will be removed promptly.

Signers of the petition have come back to comment on it, celebrating their victory. But none were happier than the creator of it himself:

For years, this sign has been an affront to people on the Upper West Side who are offended by Trump’s racism and misogyny, and more recently his promotion of the insurrection. We are outraged that a president who helped destroy our environment would be credited as a sponsor of a highway ‘beautification’ initiative. I applaud DOT for taking this action, and hope they have a ceremony that the 1,600+ people who signed the petition can attend [and] witness an act of true beautification of our neighborhood — removal of the sign.

The West 79th Street Exit is about to get a lot more “beautified.”

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