Emmanuel Mensah Way (Bronx)
Present name:Prospect Avenue
Location:Between East 185th Street and East 187th Street
Honoree: Emmanuel Mensah (1991-2017) immigrated to the United States from Ghana. At his death he was a Private 1st Class in the New York National Guard and was training to be a military police officer. He was killed while trying to rescue people from a building fire in the Bronx where he lived. He was able to save four people, but on his third attempt to go back into the building, he was not able to find his way out. He was posthumously awarded The Soldier’s Medal, a medal that is the United States Army’s highest award for heroism that occurs outside of combat and the New York State Medal of Valor. (Torres)
LL:2018/139