Flight 587 Way (Manhattan)
Present name:None
Location:At the northeast corner of 181st Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Honoree: This co-naming commemorates the victims of Flight 587 which crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, three minutes after taking off from Kennedy Airport on November 12, 2001. American Airlines Flight 587 was bound for the Dominican Republic. All 260 people aboard the flight were killed, along with five people on the ground. A large number of those killed in the crash resided in the Washington Heights area. (Rodriguez)
LL:2017/45