Mayor signs bill to name streets after local heroes
Mega, Dunn, Stramka, D’Amato earn posthumous honors
Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed into law legislation sponsored by Councilmember Vincent Gentile to co-name four street corners in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights in memory of prominent local residents who made a mark on politics, business and civic life in the neighborhood.
One of the street corners, the intersection of 10th Avenue and 80th Street, will be co-named for the late Hon. Christopher J. Mega, a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Mega was a former state senator who tried to mount a political comeback in 1998 by running against Gentile, who was a state senator at the time.