For at least the third year running, New York City pols will rename at least one local street after the parent of one of their own.
The renamings generally recognize a community's history, particularly individuals who made profound contributions on the blocks in which they either grew up or worked.
Honorees include late legends like crooner Tony Bennett and zombie film pioneer George Romero; iconic business owners like Vincent Vinny Peanuts Sabatino; New Yorkers taken too soon like Ava Conklin and Saheed Vassell; and public servants like NYPD Officer Paul Heidelberger and FDNY battalion chief Christopher Scalone.
Some of the notable figures being honored with street renamings are FDNY firefighter Joseph Soupy Campbell, Edgar Moya - an immigrant from Ecuador and father of City Hall representative Francisco Moya, and Sylvia Weprin, mother of Assemblymember David Weprin.
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