Ceremony set to rename Carpenter Flats Bridge after late trooper

Ceremony set to rename Carpenter Flats Bridge after late trooper

PERU — A ceremony to rename the Carpenter Flats Bridge after late New York state Trooper Christopher J. Garrow is taking place May 30.

Late playwright Terrence McNally’s home street to be named in his honor

The Terrence McNally Foundation and Tom Kirdahy Productions have announced that late, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally will be honored with a namesake roadway. East Ninth Street in Manhattan, between Broadway and University Place, will be named Terrence McNally Way, in honor of the playwright who made his home on the block for nearly a quarter century. An event unveiling the new name will take place on May 30 at the corner of East …

Police officers killed in 1960s honored with street renaming

Two Nassau County police officers were honored posthumously for their services to the community with their North Hempstead hometown streets renamed for them 65 years after their deaths. The two officers remembered were Joseph L. Coote, a Manhasset police officer shot and killed by a suspected robber in 1961, and Robert H. Pickwick, a New Hyde Park officer killed in a car crash while on duty in 1960. “You hear people say ‘never forget’ but over t…