street renaming

A corner in Jackson Heights will be renamed to honor a former activist who died in 1996.

Elizabeth Street between Canal and Bayard streets is one step closer to becoming "Danny Chen Way."

The board hopes to rename the corner of Nelson Ave. and 167th St. outside the pastor's former church.

More than 100 Jackson Heights residents gathered to celebrate the life of  Sister Mary Patrick McCarthy.

Austin Street and Ascan Avenue are being named in honor of the first female candidate for Vice President.

A street co-naming to honor the child struck and killed on Delancey Street has committee support.

Morrison and Bement avenues will be renamed "District Attorney Bill Murphy Way" after the longtime DA.

A Harlem community board will ask mosque imams about naming a street for slain Officer Phillip Cardillo.

At a meeting on Monday night, members of Community Board 6 voted to approve the co-naming of East 21st Street after NYPD Officer Glen Pettit, who died on 9/11.

The community board will discuss a proposal to rename a block of East Sixth Street after longtime City Councilwoman Miriam Friedlander. 

Close to 3,000 people have signed an online petition to name the 500 block of West 121st Street after comedian George Carlin.

Electronics giant J&R is no longer seeking to rename Park Row as "J&R Row."

The mayor also signed legislation officially renaming 14 Manhattan streets and public spaces, including an extension of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile up to East 110th Street.