Shirley Chisholm Place (Brooklyn)
Present name:None
Location:Southwest corner of Park Place and Kingston Avenue
Honoree: Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) was a New York State Assemblywoman and later the first African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. She served from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 she became the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
LL:2008/64