Hetty Fox Lane (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the southwest corner of Lyman Place and Freedman Street
Honoree:  Hetty Agnes Fox (1937-2019), was a writer, musician, educator and community activist. Born in Harlem, she moved to the Bronx in 1940 and attended St. Anthony of Padua Elementary and Cathedral High School. She went on to study at Hunter College where she learned Russian, majored in psychology, perfected her bridge game in the college cafeteria, and earned her B.A. degree in 1962. In 1970, she found a block in decline and began a decades-long effort to rescue abandoned buildings and assist struggling families. She began by renovating and rescuing one-family and two-family homes on her block, and eventually turned one of them, at 1370 Lyman Place, into a center for arts and education. In 1977 she started “Play Street," which attracts over 100 kids daily, to give kids who cannot afford summer camp another option. Her father taught her African dance at an early age. She played the traditional and five-drum electronic conga, mastering them enough to tour Europe with Jazz artist Ornette Coleman and record an album with saxophonist Archie Shepp. She self-published two books: “Neighborhood Rules of Order” and “Jealousy be Gone.” She was instrumental in promoting the Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University and is included in the book, “Before the Fires,” an oral history of Blacks in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was featured in the PBS documentary, “Decade of Fire,” which revisits the 1970s when the South Bronx was abandoned to flames by the city and rescued by its residents. (Gibson)
LL:2022/54

Murray Fox Way (Queens)
Present name:None
Location:Intersection of 44th Street and Greenpoint Avenue
Honoree: Murray Fox (1927-2015) served in the United States Navy and later was a long-time Sunnyside resident. He was active in the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside for over 20 years, serving as president for a number of those years, and also served as the Kiwanis Club Lt. Governor of the Queens West Division. Mr. Fox operated the well known Fox’s Variety Store on the north side of Greenpoint Avenue and was very involved with charitable causes in his community. (Van Bramer)
LL:2018/139

Police Officer Leon Fox Way (Brooklyn)
Present name:None
Location:At the northeast corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street
Honoree: Leon Fox (d. 1941) served with the NYPD for ten years and was assigned to the 60th Precinct. He was killed in the line of duty while escorting a store manager to the bank to deposit daily receipts. Three suspects were later apprehended and convicted of murder. (Deutsch)
LL:2018/139