HUNTERS POINT — Queens Community Board 2 is looking to name a street after Tony Mazzarella, the owner of the Waterfront Crabhouse who died last month after running the neighborhood eatery for decades.
The board will address the proposal to rename Borden Avenue and 2nd Street "Anthony Mazzarella Way" when it meets March 5, according to an agenda for the meeting posted on the CB2 website. The LIC Post first reported the news.
The proposed intersection is next to the Waterfront Crabhouse, which closed last week after decades in the neighborhood and weeks after Mazzarella died at the age of 77.
CB2 Chairman Pat O'Brien called Mazzarella "a fixture in the community for 40-plus years."
"He and the Crabhouse — he started that place when there was no notion of Hunters Point. It became kind of iconic," he said.
In addition to his restaurant, Mazzarella was active in charity work. He was involved in the American Cancer Society and started a boxing program for kids, O'Brien said.
He is also remembered as a "legend" in the city's boxing world and a member of the group Ring 8, which held its meetings at the Crabhouse.
"You just can't say enough good things about [him]," O'Brien said. "This was a guy with such roots in the community."
