NYC Honorary Street Names

"P" Honorary Streets: The Bronx

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P.O. Jorge Luis Gonzalez Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Home Street and Vyse Avenue
Honoree: Police Officer Jorge Luis Gonzalez (1964-2020) joined the NYPD in 1995. He was assigned to the 40th Precinct where he performed Patrol and was subsequently part of the Burglary Apprehension Team. He was awarded 11 Medals for Meritorious Police Duty and one for Excellent Police Duty. He had a total of 236 arrests. He died of 9/11 related illness after assisting in the search and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. (Salamanca)
LL:2022/54
P.O. Ronald G. Becker, Jr. Way (Bronx)
Present name:Washington Avenue
Location:At 830 Washington Avenue
Honoree: Ronald Becker (1958-2012) served in the United States Navy and with the New York City Police Department for 20 years. He was assigned to the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx and made more than 50 arrests and was recognized once for Excellent Police Duty and once for Meritorious Police Duty. He died from illnesses he contracted after inhaling toxic materials as he participated in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. (Gibson)
LL:2015/76
Pandit Vishnu Sukul Way (Bronx)
Present name:Noble Avenue
Location:Between Westchester Avenue and Gleason Avenue
Honoree:  Pandit Vishnu Sukul (1955-20190 was a long-time Bronx Hindu priest and spiritual leader who founded the Hindu Temple, Vishnu Mandir in the Bronx in 1996. He hosted numerous events, such as the Diwali “Festival of Lights,” Bollywood dance classes, Hindi language classes, awareness events, free book readings and also started the Annual Holi “Festival of Colors” Parade in the Bronx. (Diaz)
LL:2019/158
Parque De Los Ninos (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Existing playground located at the NE corner of Morrison Ave and Watson Ave
Honoree: This playground honors six young people all of whom died between 1986 and 1990 "at the hands of a convicted killer." Annette Rosario, a senior at Herbert H. Lehman H.S.; Shamira Bello, an eighth grader at P.S. 162; Heriberto Marrero, a seventh grader at JHS 123; Nilda Cartagena, a seventh grader at JHS 123; Lisa Rodriguez, a student at Lehman College; and Jessica Guzman,a fifth grader at St. John Vianney School.
LL:1995/37
Pastor Marie C. Norwood Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Bronx Park South and Mohegan Avenue
Honoree: Pastor Marie C. Norwood (1931-2008) joined the Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ in 1952 and served as a missionary and charity board worker for over nine years. She then served was an Evangelist in the Deliverance Evangelistic Center for over a decade. She then founded the Bronx Deliverance Center of Faith Church. She was also the Executive Director of Carroll M. Christian Day Care Center, Director of Louis Irby After School Center, Founder and Director of the Bronx Christian Business Women Association, member of the Council of Churches of New York, a member of the Bronx Shepherds Restoration Inc., Executive Board Member of the Interdenominational Women’s Conference, President of the Bronx Chapter of the IWC and served on the Community Board. (Torres)
LL:2021/14
Pastor Robert Lewis Foley, Sr. Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of West 190th Street and Grand Avenue
Honoree:  Pastor Robert Lewis Foley, Sr. (d. 2019) founded the Cosmopolitan Church of the Lord Jesus in 1978 in the Bronx. In 1999, he helped to establish the Faith-based Outreach Initiative of Bronx Health REACH, serving as its Clergy Liaison. He was an active member of the Legal and Regulatory Committee and three-term chairman of the Bronx African-American/Caribbean Heritage Day Parade & Festival Council and served on numerous other community and citywide boards and committees. (Cabrera)
LL:2019/158
Patricia Wiley Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Harper Avenue and East 233rd Street
Honoree:  Patricia Wiley [no dates given]was the founder of the Harper Avenue Block Association and a lover of all things God, children, and community. Affectionately known as “Patsy” and “Ms. Pat”, she was born in Harlem Hospital; attended NYC public schools, some college and later earned a certificate in ladies tailoring from Fashion Institute of Technology. She grew up attending Caldwell Temple AME Zion Church under the pastoral leadership of the Late Rev. Dr. Carnes McKinney, where she was Sunday School financial secretary, worked with Vacation Bible School under Mrs. Cook and attended Christian education classes. She was also a member of Minisink Blue Bells under the leadership of Ernestine Seaborne. She fellowshipped with Grace Baptist Church on Dyre Avenue in the Bronx, NY under the pastoral leadership of the Late Rev. Acker. She became a delegate for the American Baptist Churches annual meeting, Vacation Bible School director, American Baptist Churches Youth Convocation Planning Team for 25 years, financial secretary for the church and church clerk. (Riley)
LL:2022/54
Peace Officers Memorial Lane (Bronx)
Present name:Longwood Avenue
Location:Bruckner Boulevard and Southern Boulevard
Honoree: Honors all police officers who have died in the line of duty while serving with the 41st Precinct. (RGPR)
LL:1999/29
Peggy Braverman Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Intersection of Matthews Avenue and Astor Avenue
Honoree: Peggy Braverman (1921-2011) was the Deputy County Clerk for the Bronx from 1985 to 1999 and was active in the Pelham Parkway Community for more than four decades. 
LL:2012/14
PePe Cardona Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Rochelle Street and City Island Avenue
Honoree: Pepe Cardona (d. 2020) was the lead singer and band leader of ALIVE N KICKIN. He burst onto the music scene in the 70's with "Tighter, Tighter," which sold over 2 million copies and led to national TV appearances on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and The Mike Douglas Show, among others. The band was active for over 50 years and gained a loyal following for its concerts, including the annual City Island Concert Series. He was very supportive of his City Island community, raising money for various causes until his death from cancer at the age of 72. (Gjonaj)
LL:2022/54
PFC Buford Brown Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of East 179th Street and Morris Avenue
Honoree: Buford Brown, born in Georgia in 1924, served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He qualified as a Carbine Sharpshooter and also operated an armored tractor transporting nuclear weaponry. After his honorable discharge from military service in 1946, he returned to civilian life, married and had a family, moving from Harlem to the Bronx in 1966. For the remainder of his life, along with his wife Dorothy, Buford Brown was the founder of multiple businesses and community organizations including a licensed home daycare center; Jac-ga-Mar Community Improvement Association; and Jac-ga-Mar Realty Corporation. The Association participated in community clean-ups, green thumb gardens and community patrols in a period when Bronx neighborhoods were declining. For his efforts, vision and trailblazing, Mr. Brown, in the 1980s, received a New York City Council Cited from former Council Member Rev. Wendell Foster. Mr. Brown died in 2012. (Cabrera) This designation replaces Setcion 4 of Local Law 110 of 2017.
LL:2022/54
Phil Foglia Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of East 189th Street and Belmont Avenue
Honoree: Phil Foglia (d. 2020) was a consultant for the Council of Belmont Organizations, and the Italian American Alliance for Education, and served on Community Planning Board 6. He was appointed by Mayor Koch to the Council on InterGroup Relations to help ease tensions communities throughout the City. Professionally, he served as Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx where he was assigned to the Appeals Bureau and the Investigations Bureau prosecuting rackets and narcotics cases. He was designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney under Rudolph Giuliani, assigned to the Organized Crime and Public Corruption Strike Force in the Southern District of New York. He was a founding board member of the Italian American Museum; a pro bono Legal Counsel for the Bronx Special Olympics for two decades; President of the Columbus Alliance; and a founding director of the New Bronx Columbus Day Parade Committee. He was also a founding director of the Child Reach Foundation to assist youth suffering from poverty, health problems and limited educational opportunities. He was the Executive Vice President of SEBCO, an award winning Bronx non-profit where he supervised two senior citizens nutritional programs, two homeless shelters and eight senior citizens buildings. (Feliz)
LL:2022/54
Phyllis Bufano Playground (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Existing playground at Waterbury Avenue and LaSalle Avenue
Honoree: Phyllis Bufano, a teacher at P.S. 71, dedicated much of her life to improving her community. She was a founding member of the Waterbury-LaSalle Community Organization and served as its president for 6 years. As a parent, she was active in the P.S. 71 PTA, Little League, and a girls softball league. She was also a long-time member of Community Board 10 and chair of its Parks Committee. Ms. Bufano died in May 1992 after a long illness. She was 45.
LL:1993/86
Phyllis Post Goodman Park (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Park at northeast corner of Kappock St and Henry Hudson Parkway.
Honoree: Phyllis Goodman (1932-1995), a teacher and the mother of two daughters, served on her local Community Board for over 25 year and was instrumental in preserving, for educational use, the land that is now the site of John F. Kennedy High School and P.S. 37. She was active with Bronx Court Monitors, helped with Braille transcription at the Lighthouse. She was also active in support organizations for women with cancer, to which she herself succumbed in 1995.
LL:1996/39
Phyllis Yvonne Reed Plaza (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Davidson Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road
Honoree: Phyllis Yvonne Reed (1943-2009) was a longtime Bronx activist who founded one of the first black-owned advertising agencies, Dalmatian Enterprises Inc.,
LL:2011/03
Piccirilli Place (Bronx)
Present name:East 142nd Street
Location:Between Willis Avenue and Brook Avenue
Honoree: The Piccirilli family, parents, six sons and a daughter, immigrated from Tuscany in 1888 and by 1893 had established a home and sculpture studio at 467 E. 142nd Street. Original Piccirilli sculptures include The Maine Monument at Columbus Circle and the Fireman’s Memorial on Riverside Drive. They also carved the Library Lions at 42nd St. and the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial. The studio closed in 1945, the year three of the brothers died.
LL:2003/62
Plaza Drive (Bronx)
Present name:Jerome Avenue
Location:Area of the street west of Keltch Memorial Park from Macombs Road to Marcy Place
Honoree: Named for the Plaza Packaging Corp., manufacturers of packaging for the fragrance, cosmetic, and health and beauty industries. At the time of this 1992 naming the company had recently expanded by more than 60,000 SF, demonstrating its long term commitment to the Bronx where more than 80% of its employees lived.
LL:1992/58
PO John D’ Allara 9/11 Memorial Way (Bronx)
Present name:Northwest corner of Allerton and Bronxwood Avenues
Location:The sign pointing west on Allerton Avenue
Honoree: Police Officer John D’ Allara (1954-2001) was appointed to the NYPD in 1983, joined the ESU in 1987. He was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
LL:2006/50
Police Officer Anthony DiGiovanna Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Intersection of Arthur Avenue and East 186th Street
Honoree: Anthony DiGiovanna (1965-2011) was a volunteer responder on 9/11 and worked the following 4 months in recovery efforts at Ground Zero. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2002, but returned to the 48th Precinct and was assigned as the Community Affairs Officer until his death.
LL:2012/48
Police Officer Deon L. Taylor Way (Bronx)
Present name:Simpson Street
Location:Between East 163rd Street and Westchester Avenue
Honoree: Police Officer Deon Taylor (d. 2008) joined the NYPD in 2005, working first in the Transit Bureau and then the narcotics team. He was killed while serving his second military tour with the US Army in Afghanistan.
LL:2011/03
Police Officer Eric Hernandez Memorial Corner (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Southwest corner of East Mosholu Parkway North and Webster Avenue
Honoree: Police Officer Eric Hernandez (1981-2006) was off-duty when he was assaulted by six men at a White Castle restaurant. He was able to subdue one suspect. However, when police arrived on the scene Hernandez was mistakenly shot by another officer while pointing his gun at the suspect.
LL:2012/14
Police Officer Hilario Serrano Playground (Bronx)
Present name:Castle Hill Playground
Location:A PG on Lafayette Ave. and Turnbull Ave. Between Olmstead (?) Avenue and Castle Hill Avenue
Honoree: As an auxiliary police officer, Hilario (Larry) Serrano (1962-1992) received a medal of honor for helping a woman who had been raped and stabbed. He became a police officer in 1986 and was assigned to the 43rd Pct. In January 1992, while off duty, he was shot and killed in a mugging attempt.
LL:1993/99
Police Officer Jill Garcia Place (Bronx)
Present name:Cross Bronx Expressway
Location:Between Park Avenue and Washington Avenue
Honoree: Police Officer Jill Garcia (1975-2009), assigned to the 48th Precinct, worked on patrol and as part of the Domestic Violence Unit.  In March 2009, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and died later that year. Jill used her bilingual talents in particular to help those most vulnerable to domestic violence, immigrant women. 
LL:2011/03
Police Officer Kenneth Mahon Place (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of East 147th Street and Southern Boulevard
Honoree: Officer Kenneth Mahon, a Vietnam veteran, joined the NYPD in 1968. He was he was decorated by the department 36 times, had over 259 arrests and disarmed about 50 people. He was killed in the line of duty in 1974 while trying to apprehend a robbery suspect.
LL:2011/47
Police Officer Kevin Joseph Gillespie Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Grand Concourse and East 183rd Street
Honoree: Officer Kevin Gillespie had served with the NYPD for 4 years and was assigned to the Special Operations Division Street Crime Unit. On March 14, 1996, OfficerGillespie was shot and killed by a man he had just pulled over. He and his partner had stopped a BMW which had been car-jacked earlier in the evening. As the two were approaching the vehicle, the men inside opened fire. One bullet struck Officer Gillespie in the shoulder, above his vest. The bullet went straight down his torso striking many organs. (Torres)
LL: 2016/23
Police Officer Manuel (Manny) Vargas Way (Bronx)
Present name:Rhinelander Avenue
Location:Between Eastchester Road and Stillwell Avenue
Honoree: Manny Vargas (1969-2018) was a highly decorated 23-year veteran of the NYPD. He was appointed to the NYPD on February 28, 1994. After graduating, from the Police Academy, he was assigned to the 24th Precinct in Manhattan. He was later transferred to the 49th Precinct in 2006 and worked as a patrol officer until 2013 when he was selected to serve as one of the precinct's Traffic Safety Officers. He died as a result of 9/11 illness from working at Ground Zero. (Gjonaj)
LL:2019/24
Police Officer Pasquale Venturelli Corner (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Corner of City Island Avenue and Carroll Street
Honoree: Pasquale Venturelli (1911-1943) enjoyed hunting, archery and boating. He had a Boston Whaler and used to fish off City Island. He joined the NYC Police department in 1938 and lived the job like a true professional. His life was cut short on a snowy day in 1943, after just 5 years on the job.
LL:2005/43
Police Officer Patrick McGovern Way (Bronx)
Present name:Rhinelander Avenue
Location:Between Eastchester Road and Stillwell Avenue
Honoree:  Patrick McGovern (1976-2019)was a police officer for over 19 years serving with the 49th Precinct and the Bronx Zoo detail. He was a responder on 9/11 and worked on the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero for three months. He died as a result of 9/11 related illness. (Gjonaj)
LL:2020/26
Police Officer Sean A. McDonald Memorial Plaza (Bronx)
Present name:East 169th Street
Location:The triangle bounded bounded by Jerome Avenue, Gerard Avenue and East 169th Street.
Honoree: Sean A. McDonald joined the NYPD in 1992 and was assigned to the 44th Precinct. On the evening of March 15, 1994, he was mortally wounded while attempting to arrest two robbers he saw running from a store. He was 26 years old. He was the first uniformed officer of the 44th Precinct to be killed in the line of duty since the establishment of the Precinct in 1888.
LL:1994/15
Police Officer Vincent Giudice Place (Bronx)
Present name:West 236th Street
Location:Between Kingsbridge Avenue and Broadway.
Honoree: Vincent Giudice, born in 1965, joined the NYPD in 1992 and was assigned to the 50th Precinct. On May 21, 1996, he and his partner responded to a domestic dispute call where, attempted to protect a woman apparantly being attacked. I a struggle with the suspect P.O. Giudice was fatally injured and diedthe next day. In his honor, the NYPD has created The Vincent Giudice Memorial Award for the Prevention of Domestic Violence."
LL:1997/85
Police Officer Walter E. Weaver Way (Bronx)
Present name:White Plains Road
Location:between East 223rd Street and East 233rd Street
Honoree: Police Officer Walter E. Weaver (b. 1971) died on September 11, 2001 during fire and rescue operations following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
LL:2004/08
Port Authority Police Officer Dominick Pezzulo Triangle (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:Intersection of the Hutchinson River Parkway and East Tremont Avenue
Honoree: Port Authority Police Officer Dominick Pezzulo (1965-2011), a Throgs Neck resident, volunteered to assist in the rescue effort at the World Trade Center on 9/11.  He perished while attempting to rescue a colleague in the South Tower.
LL:2009/92
Private First Class Carlos James Lozada Place (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Willis Avenue and East 135th Street
Honoree: Carlos James Lozada was born in Puerto Rico and later settled in the Bronx. He joined the United States Army, was sent to Vietnam and was assigned to Co. A, 2nd Battalion, 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade in 1967. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in December 1969, for distinguishing himself in the Battle of Dak To where he was killed in combat. (Arroyo)
LL:2013/131
PV2 Isaac T. Cortes Way (Bronx)
Present name:Unionport Road
Location:Between Metropolitan Oval and Starling Avenue
Honoree: Private Isaac T. Cortes, a Parkchester resident, received multiple and awards and decorations during his Army service, including the Bronze Star. He was killed on November 27, 2007 when an explosive device detonated in Amerli, Iraq, just north of Baghdad.
LL:2009/92
Pvt. Buford Brown Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of East 179th Street and Morris Avenue
Honoree: Buford Brown (1924-2012), born in Georgia, served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Following his military service, Mr. Brown returned to civilian life, married and had a family, moving from Harlem to the Bronx in 1966. For the remainder of his life, along with his wife Dorothy, Buford Brown was a community entrepreneur and benefactor, founding and operating multiple businesses and community organizations, including a licensed home daycare center, Jac-ga-Mar Community Improvement Association and Jac-ga-Mar Realty Corporation. The Association participated in community clean-ups, green thumb gardens and community patrols as Bronx neighborhoods were declining. (Cabrera)
LL:2017/110


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