NYC Honorary Street Names Map (Street Line)

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Int. No. 321

1978-05-04T00:00:00.000

1978-01-01T00:00:00.000

1978/008

Street

Manhattan

Taras Shevchenko Place

Hall place

East 6th Street to East 7th Street

10003.0

Stern, Olivieri, Friedlander, Ward, Povman, Horwitz, Crispino, Codd, Foster, and Riccio

Taras Shevchenko is remembered as the father of Ukrainian national literature. Born a serf in the year 1814, he endured an unhappy, orphaned childhood. After serving an apprenticeship to icon and mural painters, he was bought and freed from serfdom in 18

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Int. No. 386

1978-06-12T00:00:00.000

1978-01-01T00:00:00.000

1978/015

Structure

Queens

Francis R. Buono Bridge

Rikers Island Bridge

From 19th Avenue and Hazen Street in the borough of Queens extending to Rikers Island in the borough of the Bronx.

11105.0

DeMarco, Vallone, Steingut, Ryan, Samuel, Crispino, Ward, Horwitz, Codd, Foster, Rodriguez, and Riccio

Francis R. Buono, who died on July 3, 1977, was born in New York City on August 13, 1915. He graduated from Flushing High School and attended Manhattan College.

On April 10, 1941, Francis R. Buono was appointed a Correction Officer. He served at Rikers

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Int. No. 421

1978-07-28T00:00:00.000

1978-01-01T00:00:00.000

1978/022

Street

Queens

Latimer Place

34th Avenue

137th Street to Linden Place

11354.0

Sadowsky and Spigner

Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848, the son of a runaway slave. He attended grammar school for a few years due to his parents' limited finances. He developed an interest in reading, drawing and writing literary c

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Int. No. 863

1976-03-01T00:00:00.000

1976-01-01T00:00:00.000

1976/012

Street

Queens

William A. Clarke Place, 103rd Street

103rd Street

Rockaway Boulevard to Centreville Street

11417.0

Ward

Dr. William A. Clarke died on August 1, 1975, at the age of seventy, a resident of Richmond Hill, Queens. He was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan and graduated from St. Jerome's Parochial School in the Bronx, Xavier High School in Manhattan, Fo

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Int. No. 922-A

1976-05-18T00:00:00.000

1976-10-07T00:00:00.000

1976/025

Street

Brooklyn

University Plaza

Debevoise Place

DeKalb Avenue to Willoughby Street

11201.0

Cuite

The Brooklyn center of Long Island University is located on this street; its' main entrance being located at Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue. Debevoise Place is the main access street to the various buildings and other areas of this instituti

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Int. No. 915

1976-06-25T00:00:00.000

1976-10-07T00:00:00.000

1976/031

Street

Bronx

Santa Maria Avenue

St. Raymond Avenue

Parker Street to Zerega Avenue

10462.0

DeMarco, Ryan, and Mele

The subject block is the one on which the Santa Maria Church is situated. This Church was founded in 1926, and this year marks its fiftieth anniversary as a parish on this attractive block. Members of the community also feel that this would give some rec

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Int. No. 933

1976-10-12T00:00:00.000

1976-10-07T00:00:00.000

1976/052

Street

Queens

Hollis Hills Terrace

Hollis Court Boulevard

73rd Avenue to 86th Avenue

11427.0

Troy and Povman

This proposed law would amend the administrative code by renaming Hollis Court Boulevard which extends from 73d Avenue to 86th Avenue to Hollis Hills Terrace.

This section of Hollis Court Boulevard has no relation to the other section of Hollis Court Bo

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Int. No. 777-A

1976-12-01T00:00:00.000

1976-10-07T00:00:00.000

1976/062

Street

Manhattan

Reinhold Niebuhr Place

West 120th Street

West 120th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive

10115.0

Stern, Weiss, Wagner, Sadowsky, Burden, and Friedlander

Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Maine, in 1892. He attended Elmhurst College, Eden Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School where he earned the Degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and Bachelor of Arts. He subsequently was granted eigh

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Int. No. 797-A

1980-06-20T00:00:00.000

1980-10-09T00:00:00.000

1980/028

Street

Queens

120th Street Rubie Plaza

120th Street

Jamaica avenue to the end of the street (Long Island railroad road tracks)

11418.0

Povman

Rubie Beige, the founder of Rubie's Costume Company, was born in Middle Village, Queens on August 15, 1917. He fought in World War II where he was wounded. After the war Beige purchased a small novelty shop in Woodhaven, Queens. This novelty shop was ori

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Int. No. 973

1977-01-03T00:00:00.000

1977-10-09T00:00:00.000

1977/002

Street

Bronx

Tim Hendrick Place

West 236th street

Running easterly from Broadway to the right of way of Con Rail (Penn Central Railroad)

10463.0

Simon and Ryan

Tim Hendrick was a native of the Kingsbridge area in the Bronx. He was born on November 3, 1931, and died on November 16, 1973. He attended St. Rose of Lima School and Bronx Vocational High School. In 1952 he entered the United States Army and was honora

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Int. No. 941

1977-02-10T00:00:00.000

1977-01-01T00:00:00.000

1977/015

Street

Manhattan

Frederick Douglass Boulevard

8th avenue

Frederick Douglass Circle to Harlem River drive

10030.0

Messrs, Samuel, Kaufman, Friedlander, Ryan, Simon, Gangemi and Stern

Frederick Douglass was born as Frederick August Washington Bailey in Tuckahoe Maryland in the year 1817. In 1838 he escaped from his enslaved family to New Bedford Massachusetts, where he assumed the new name. He received no formal education and educated

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Int. No. 1106

1977-05-09T00:00:00.000

1977-10-09T00:00:00.000

1977/035

Street

Bronx

Capuchin way

Wallace Avenue

East Gun Hill Road to Bartholdi Street

10467.0

Crispino, Ryan, Messrs, Simon, Horwitz, Mele, and Gangemi

The Capuchin Fathers who administer the Immaculate Conception Church are members of a world-wide Franciscan Order. Their zeal and enthusiasm have been instrumental in promoting the growth of this large, modernized Church which serves a large community.

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Int. No. 1068

1977-07-28T00:00:00.000

1977-01-01T00:00:00.000

1977/047

Street

Manhattan

Margaret Corbin Drive

The entire roadway extending from the plaza at Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini boulevard, around the museum and returning southward to the plaza

10040.0

Wagner, Stringer and Stern

These proposed laws would amend the Administrative Code by naming the northerly end of Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard to be known as Margaret Corbin Plaza and by naming the entire roadway extending from the plaza at Fort Washington Avenue a

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Int. No. 1174

1977-10-28T00:00:00.000

1977-10-09T00:00:00.000

1977/079

Street

Bronx

Our Lady of Solace Plaza

Morris Park Avenue

Wallace Avenue to Hunt Avenue

10462.0

DeMarco and Ryan

This proposed law would amend the Administrative Code by renaming that portion of Morris Park Avenue from Wallace Avenue to Hunt Avenue to be known as Our Lady of Solace Plaza and that portion of Holland Avenue from Rhinelander Avenue to Morris Park Aven

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Int. No. 1174

1977-10-28T00:00:00.000

1977-10-09T00:00:00.000

1977/079

Street

Bronx

Our Lady of Solace Place

Holland Avenue

Rhinelander avenue to Morris Park Avenue

10462.0

DeMarco and Ryan

This proposed law would amend the Administrative Code by renaming that portion of Morris Park Avenue from Wallace Avenue to Hunt Avenue to be known as Our Lady of Solace Plaza and that portion of Holland Avenue from Rhinelander Avenue to Morris Park Aven

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Int. No. 1152-A

1977-11-15T00:00:00.000

1977-01-01T00:00:00.000

1977/083

Street

Manhattan

Duke Ellington Boulevard-West 106th street

West 106th street

Riverside drive to Central Park West

10025.0

Messrs, Berger, Samuel, Wagner, Friedlander, Greitzer, Horwitz and Pinkett

Мг. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was a renowned black American jazz musician and composer. He was born in Washington, D. C. In 1916 he made his first professional appearance as a jazz pianist. In 1918 he formed a band and after appearances in nightc

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Int. No. 1203

1977-12-30T00:00:00.000

1977-01-01T00:00:00.000

1977/104

Intersection

Bronx

Santo Donato Place

Mildred Place

Edison Avenue to Pilgrim Avenue

10461.0

DeMarco, Ryan and Crispio

Santo Donato Martire was born in Italy in the year 1472. He was a Crusade warrior. He was ordained a Saint by Pope Leo, and his body was preserved in a glass coffin and sent to Ruvo Del Monte, Potenza, Italy.

In the year 1783 a drought hit the small ha

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Int. No. 640

1975-02-14T00:00:00.000

1975-01-01T00:00:00.000

1975/006

Street

Manhattan

Samuel D. Leidesdorf Plaza

First Avenue

East side of First Avenue between the prolongation of the northerly line of East 32nd Street and the prolongation of the southerly line of East 31st Street.

10016.0

Stern and Wagner

Samuel D. Leidesdorf was born in the year 1881. He lost his father at the age of six and left school at the age of thirteen to support himself and his mother. At the age of twenty he was earning $5,000 a year but left his job to study accounting. In 1905

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Int. No. 706

1975-10-29T00:00:00.000

1975-10-09T00:00:00.000

1975/055

Street

Staten Island

Father Capodanno Boulevard

Seaside Boulevard

Lily Pond Avenue to Elm Tree Avenue

10305.0

Gaeta, Curry, and Arculeo

Father Vincent R. Capodanno was a native-born Staten Islander. He was born on February 13, 1929. A graduate of Curtis High School he was ordained as a Maryknoll Missionary Priest on June 14, 1958. He volunteered to serve as a chaplain with the United Sta

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Int. No. 705

1975-12-18T00:00:00.000

1975-10-09T00:00:00.000

1975/056

Street

Manhattan

Pace Plaza

Pace College Plaza

Easterly side of former Nassau Street between Frankfort Street and Spruce Street

10038.0

Friedlander

This proposed law would amend the Administrative Code by changing the name of Pace College Plaza to Pace Plaza. The limits of Pace College Plaza are the easterly side of former Nassau Street between Frankfort and Spruce Streets adjacent to the front step

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Int. No. 117

1974-06-11T00:00:00.000

1974-10-10T00:00:00.000

1974/013

Street

Brooklyn

Martin Luther King Jr. Place

Floyd Street

Between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues

11206.0

Richmond and Steingut

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a foremost, lifelong and early leader of the Black people in the United States. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and an eloquent spokesman for the humanitarian ideals of peace and freedom. Achievement of

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Int. No. 421

1974-09-03T00:00:00.000

1974-01-01T00:00:00.000

1974/037

Street

Brooklyn

Dahlgren Place

Dahlgreen Place Concord Street

Fort Hamilton (United States Government Reservation) to 86th Street

11228.0

Arculeo

Dahlgren Place was named on September 22, 1903, after John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, a United States naval officer, a Civil War hero and inventor of the Dahlgren gun.

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Int. No. 626

1974-12-03T00:00:00.000

1974-10-10T00:00:00.000

1974/047

Street

Manhattan

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

7th Avenue

Central Park North to West 155th Street

10030.0

Samuel

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was born on November 29, 1908, in New Haven, Connecticut. He died on April 4, 1972. He received a bachelor's degree at Colgate University in 1930 and a master's degree at Columbia University in 1931.

He was a pastor of the world