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Clinton Hill Street to Be Co-Named 'Carey Gabay Way' to Honor Cuomo Staffer

 Carey Gabay was fatally shot in Brooklyn leading up to the West Indian Day Parade last year. Now, the city plans to co-name a street in his honor in his neighborhood of Clinton Hill.
Carey Gabay was fatally shot in Brooklyn leading up to the West Indian Day Parade last year. Now, the city plans to co-name a street in his honor in his neighborhood of Clinton Hill.
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CLINTON HILL — A neighborhood street will soon be named for a Clinton Hill resident and public servant killed by gun violence in Crown Heights last year, the area’s councilmember announced Friday.

Carey Gabay Way on Clinton Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle avenues will honor 43-year-old Carey Gabay, an attorney for Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was critically wounded in a gang-related shooting at the Ebbets Field apartments on Labor Day last year.

Gabay, who was raised in public housing in The Bronx and later attended Harvard Law School, died from his injuries 10 days later. He was a Clinton Hill resident and a “well known” member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, according to those attending his funeral there in September.

“We were proud of him, as we are all young people who do well,” one parishioner said.

The street co-naming is one of 42 thoroughfares and locations unanimously approved on Friday by the City Council, according to Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, who said Gabay made “an undeniable impact within the 35th Council District.”

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said in a statement that Carey “represented the best that New York City has to offer.”

“He lost his life while working on behalf of the community in Crown Heights. This co-naming will serve as a small, but enduring, tribute to his legacy as a proud son of Brooklyn who spent his life helping others,” she said.

Two other leaders in the district will be honored with street co-namings, as well.

Derrick Griffith, a dean at Medgar Evers College who died in last year’s Amtrak crash in Philadelphia, will be remembered with a street named for him near the college; Dr. Rev. Clarence Norman Sr., the longtime pastor at the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights who died last July, will be honored with a street named for him directly adjacent to his church on Rogers Avenue and Eastern Parkway.