NYC Honorary Street Names

"W" Honorary Streets: The Bronx

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Way of the Finest (Bronx)
Present name:Washington Avenue
Location:East 159th Street and East 161st Street
Honoree: This designation honors all police officers, past and future, who give their lives in the line of duty during service with the 42nd Precinct.
LL:2000/64
William J. Madonna Way (Bronx)
Present name:Bogart Avenue
Location:Between Morris Park and Rhinelander Avenue
Honoree: William J. Madonna (1961-2017) was educated at Northeastern University and the New England School of Law. He began his legal career in the office of the NYC Corporation Counsel. and later joined the Bronx District Attorney’s Office as a prosecutor. From 1994, he had a successful private practice in the Morris Park section of the Bronx. He represented victims of domestic violence, as well as handled divorce and family law, criminal law and real estate. He was a member of the Bronx County Bar Association, the Bronx Family Court Bar Association and served as chief counsel to then state-assemblyman, Mark Gjonaj. He represented the Tracey Towers tenant organization in their fight to block rent increases. He also represented the Friends of Pelham Parkway in its successful lawsuit to save the trees that were set to be removed for the reconstruction of Pelham Parkway. (Gjonaj)
LL:2018/139
William J. Scribner Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the northwest corner of Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue
Honoree: William J. Scribner (1939-2016) was a freelance bassoonist who performed with the New York Philharmonic and other major orchestras. . He founded the Bronx Arts Ensemble (BAE) in 1972. In 1993, BAE launched the Arts-in-Education programs which helped provide music, theater and art in over 40 public schools and also performs over 50 annual live concerts and family theater in Bronx neighborhoods and parks. (Cohen)
LL:2019/158
William Valcarcel Place (Bronx)
Present name:Pond Place
Location:Between East 197th Street and East 198th Street
Honoree: William Valcarcel (b. 1946) worked for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance at the World Trade Center. He was killed in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. He was killed in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
LL:2003/15
Winifred A.R. Bama Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the northwest corner of East 169th Street and Fulton Avenue
Honoree: Winifred Bama (1955-2021) was a role model for girls in sports in Sierra Leone. She ran the 400 meters, 800 meters, and 1500 meters (Middle Distance), events in which she won many gold medals. She also won a Bronze medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. In the 1980s she came to the United States as a missionary of the United Gospel Crusade in Philadelphia. She then decided to settle in the States to continue her mission. She was the first member of the Christian Community Deliverance Church, opened in June 1974 by the late Overseer and Senior Pastor Reverend Druscilla Warrington. Through her work there, she provided poor women and their children food, clothing, and shelter in Ivory Coast, Senegal, and all of West Africa. She was a friend of George Manneh Oppong Weah, the 25th President of Liberia, and saved his two daughters by adopting them during the Liberian Civil war of 1989-1991. In 1992, she started working at St. Barnabas Hospital as a CNA in the nursing home and later continued on to the Pediatric Nursery caring for newborn babies. In 2007, she retired from St. Barnabas Hospital to focus on her foreign mission and community outreach. Through Christian Community Deliverance Church, she opened Churches in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Liberia. She was also an active member iof the Fulton Avenue Church of God where she led the outreach group in conducting coat, toy, and food drives for those in need as well as gathering clothes for the Salvation Army. She was an active member of the Community Board, qas a CERT (Community emergency response team), and a community partner at the 42nd Precinct. She later became an active member of New Covenant Dominion Cathedral where she continued her foreign mission activities. (Gibson)
LL:2022/54


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