Elias Karmon Way (Bronx)
Present name:None
Location:At the northeast corner of Thwaites Place and Barker Avenue
Honoree: Elias Karmon, who died at 98 in 2008, was president of the Pelham Parkway Jewish Center; on the boards of numerous Bronx-based charitable organizations; president of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce and a board member of the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation. He was a founder of the Ponce de Leon Federal Bank, one of the few institutions that continued to provide financial services to South Bronx residents in 1970’s and 1980’s and was also a founder and former chairman of The Bronx Branch of the Urban League. (Vacca)
LL:2013/131