NYC Honorary Street Names

Diggs

Jefferson Diggs Way (Queens)
Present name:None
Location:Intersection of 88th Avenue and 178th Street
Honoree: Jefferson Diggs participated in the first wave of sit-ins at Woolworth and Kress lunch counters. He was one of the first African-American reporters hired by The New York Daily News.
LL:2013/50


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