Park Slope Ceremony To Officially Name Street After Pete Hamill

Park Slope NY

23 June, 2021

3:32 PM

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PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A street in Park Slope will officially bear the name of late newspaper icon and Brooklyn native Pete Hamill after a ceremony this week, officials have announced. Elected officials, friends, families and neighbors will gather on Seventh Avenue on Thursday to unveil new street signs designating a part of the roadway after the columnist, who died at a Brooklyn hospital last August. The ceremony comes several months after the designation was first announced and will be held on what would have been Hamill's 86th birthday. "Friends, family, and neighbors of Mr. Hamill as well as elected officials will speak and unveil the new street sign to honor Mr. Hamill's contributions to journalism not only all over NYC, but on the national news stage as well," Council Member Brad Lander's office wrote in a notice about the event. Hamill, who was born in Park Slope in 1935, was a prolific newspaperman, columnist and author who held various roles at the New York Post, New York Daily News and Newsday. Before getting into journalism, he worked as a sheet metal worker at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and served in the U.S. Navy. Here's what you need to know about Thursday's event: WHAT: Street co-naming unveiling WHEN: Thursday, June 24 at 2 p.m. WHERE: Intersection of Seventh Avenue and 12th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn WHO: Council Member Brad Lander, Borough President Eric Adams, Assembly Member Robert Carroll, friends and family of Pete Hamill, community members.