Edward Joseph Martinez Way (Queens)
Present name:Cornish Avenue
Location:Between Broadway and Poyer Street
Honoree: Edward Joseph Martinez(b. 1941), an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald, was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
LL:2005/131

FDNY FF Jimmy Martinez Way (Staten Island)
Present name:None
Location:At the northeast corner of Beach Road and Hillcrest Street
Honoree:  Jimmy Martinez was a 24-year veteran of the FDNY, assigned to engine 157 in Staten Island. He was part of the rescue and recovery effort at Ground Zero. He died of 9/11 related illness. (Borelli)
LL:2022/54

Israel Martinez Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the southeast corner of 149th Street and Wales Avenue
Honoree: Israel Martinez (1942-2020) was a clergyman, civil rights and labor activist, and politician. Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, he spent his teen years in the Bronx before returning to Puerto Rico where in 1960, he graduated from the Mizpah Bible Institute in San Juan. In 1961, at the age of nineteen, he embarked on a five-year Revival and Missionary Campaign that took him traveling through the American Southwest, Florida, and internationally to Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. In 1966, he returned to the Bronx. In the late 1960s and early 1970s during the during the Civil Rights Era, with the assistance of an organization known as the Community/Town Congress, he took on employment discrimination. He organized workers and participated in striking for better wages while employed at the Hillside Homes, a housing complex owned by former liberal and progressive New York Congressman James Scheuer. He went on to organize and play a crucial role in advancing minority employment opportunities in both the "gypsy" (non-medallion) cab industry, an industry he would later in life work and drive for, and the unemployed construction worker movement while fighting for opportunities at Lincoln Hospital. In the late 1970s,through mid-80' he served as a Special Assistant to Bronx Borough President Stanley Simon, helping tenants with housing matters. He was very active in politics as a District Leader. From 1988 thru 1991, he was a N.Y.S. Assemblyman representing the then 77th Assembly District. As an Assemblyman he advocated for free transportation for seniors, affordable housing, crime prevention, and more police presence. (Ayala)
LL:2022/54

Police Officer Louis Martinez Way (Brooklyn)
Present name:57th Street
Location:Between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue
Honoree: Louis Martinez (d. 2006) worked for Highway 2 on the Belt Parkway for 18 years and was a martial arts instructor in his community. He tragically drowned in Lake Meade while on vacation with several friends and family members.
LL:2008/64

Rev. Wenceslao Martinez Way (Brooklyn)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of Williams Avenue and Hinsdale Street
Honoree:  Wenceslao Martinez (1930-2011) worked at Dollcraft Company where he designed stuffed animals. He later started a business with his own creations of stuffed animals and employed hundreds of people in his community. After becoming a property owner he provided food and shelter for hundreds of homeless people in need and became a mentor to many people in his community. He was ordained as a pastor in 1973 and was affiliated with one of the first and largest Hispanic churches in East New York called the Roca De Salvacion for 45 years. In 2002, he established the pantry program at Las Maravillas del Exodo church. The food pantry continues to feed the hungry today. (Barron)
LL:2015/15