Lorraine Montenegro Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location: Southwest corner of East 156th Street and Prospect Avenue
Honoree: In the mid-1960s Lorraine Montenegro, with her mother, Evelina Antonetty, she created United Bronx Parents, a social service agency. Their advocacy work and activism through this organization provided educational services to children and families; supportive housing that allowed mothers in recovery to live with their children; and services to older people at a time that was crucial to many who lived through tremendous hardship in the South Bronx. On October 1, 2017, while visiting Puerto Rico, she died while trying to receive medical attention for dehydration and respiratory distress in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Lorraine Montenegro was 74 years old. (Salamanca) [Note: this corner already has a street sign honoring Ms. Montenegro's mother, Evelina Antonetty.]
LL:2017/237