Here is Sara Curry Way

The city officially co-named St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue Sara Curry Way on Saturday. (The above photo is from early Sunday morning, in case you were wondering about the trash.)

There's also a new plaque in her honor outside the Little Missionary's Day Nursery at 93 St. Mark’s Place, which Curry founded in 1896 ...





Per her bio:

In addition to providing child care, Miss Curry fed the poor in the neighborhood and often gave her own clothing or shoes to those without. She organized cooking, sewing and child care classes for the mothers. She organized meetings to help families with their problems, and helped to steer parents towards sobriety and economic responsibility.

Posts here about co-naming streets always bring up questions about how the city decides such things. The Community Board 3 website provides the guidelines. (You can find the PDF here.)

Among the guidelines:

• Street co-naming requests will be heard by the CB 3 Transportation Committee. If the request is approved by the committee, the application will be voted on by the full Board for final approval. If approved, the request will be forwarded to the City Council office for Council approval. Co-naming requests will be placed on the committee agenda twice a year to correspond to the two yearly City Council votes. These dates will be determined as needed by determining the Council hearings.

• Prospective honorees should have a minimum of 15 years community involvement for individuals and should have demonstrated an extraordinary and consistent voluntary commitment and dedication to the community. Individual prospective honorees must be deceased. Exceptions may be made however for individuals who have died under infamous circumstances of crime, accident, disease, social circumstance or if the death itself leads to a greater awareness of the cause of death and a concerted effort to address that problem.

According to DNAinfo, Eileen Johnson, who has led Little Missionary's since 2001, started petitioning for the street renaming in 2010. City Council approved the request in December 2012.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Part of St. Mark's Place will be co-named for Sara Curry tomorrow