FERRIGNO PLACE (Queens)
Present name:None
Location:163rd Street between 33rd Avenue and 35th Avenue
Honoree: Marjorie Ferrigno, who died in 2013 at the age of 97, was an educator who was founding chairperson of the Drama Department at New York's High School of Performing Arts, now part of the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. She also taught speech and drama at several univesities. She was President of the American Educational Theatre Association which represented all non professional theatre in the United States; and Secretary and Executive Committee member of the American National Theatre and Academy. Active in her Queens community, she was also a founding member and President of the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners’ Association and won a landmark court case to enforce a restrictive covenant, which led to a rezoning of part of Northern Boulevard. (Vallone)
LL:2022/54