Residents on a certain street in a sleepy Ottawa suburb are getting tired of neighbours cracking jokes about building walls to keep out “bad hombres.”

Trump Avenue snakes through the Central Park neighbourhood in the city’s west end. Many of the streets in the area are named after iconic New York landmarks like Bloomingdale’s and Staten Island.

But the steady stream of controversy that has followed the street’s Republican Party nominee namesake has tested the willingness of some residents to put up with the wisecracks.

“Now it’s just plain embarrassing,” Trump Avenue resident Pam Baker told CTV News Ottawa.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been unlike any in U.S. history. The bombastic New York billionaire has suggested that Mexicans are criminals, rapists, and drug dealers. He recently threatened to sue dozens of women accusing him of sexual assault, and audio emerged last month of Trump saying he “can do anything” to women because he’s famous, including “grab them by the p**sy.”

“I’ve actually been thinking about taking up a petition to have the name changed,” said Baker, who has lived on Trump Avenue for more than a decade. “I’m not sure we’d want to change it to Clinton, but something else besides Trump.”

Baker hasn’t submitted a formal request for the name change, but estimates a majority of her neighbours would be on board.

“Every time I give out my address, people are like ‘Oh I bet you want to move now,'” said one resident.

For now, some prefer to say they simply live in Central Park. There’s less chance of that New York institution causing controversy.

With a report from CTV Ottawa’s Megan Shaw