Most of the co-named streets engendered little or no dissent, but some of the new designation sparked fierce debate over the individual’s worthiness.
Donate NowOne was a centenarian, formerly enslaved. Another was a beloved abuela, killed inside her Brooklyn home. Another was the renowned and controversial leader of the Nation of Islam. Benjamin Prine. Juanita Caballero. Elijah Muhammad. They are just a few of the passed-on New Yorkers whose names were recently authorized by City Council to live on – on co-named street signs in the communities they graced in life.
Street co-namings are deeply meaningful. You’re changing, permanently, the landscape of New York City.Most of the co-named streets engendered little or no dissent, according to council members. But some of the new designations, during a protracted gestation period of local lobbying, even door-to-door politicking on a particular block, sparked fierce debate over the individual’s worthiness.
“Street co-namings are deeply meaningful,” said Councilmember Shekar Krishnan, who as chair of the Council’s Committee On Parks and Recreation oversees the co-naming process, which can stretch on for years. “You’re changing, permanently, the landscape of New York City.” Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad addressing an assembly of white gowned Muslim followers in New York City in 1964. His name is on a list of 129 co-named streets recently given final approval by City Council.Some designations attracted more notice than others. The recent co-naming of 127th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem as “The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way” is one of them.
The late Jennifer Gray-Brumskine, who was a long-time community organizer in New York's Liberian community, shown in a2018 event at the Christ Assembly Lutheran Church on Hudson Street in Staten Island. Her name is on a name of 129 co-named streets recently approved by City Council.“He was not an individual who sought to bring our city together,” then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said at the time, before leading an effort to defeat the measure.
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