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