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Tag: Cus D’Amato

(Street) Signs of the Times

If you haven’t already read it, the Times reported last week on the recent completion of a catalog of New York City’s ‘honorific’ street names designated since 1998. These honorific names are noted with a sign that appears in tandem with a street’s original name and can be seen all around the city. The honorific […]

A Boxing Legend’s Memory Lives on 14th Street

Have you ever walked on 14th Street near Irving Place and looked up to see that this section of the thoroughfare had a secondary street sign naming it “Cus D’Amato Way?”  I recently did just this.  I walk on 14th Street every day- how had I never noticed it?  And how did I not know […]