The New York City Council is passing a bill to name streets in honor of slain police officer Wilbert More, MP Al Vann and shooting victim Crystal Byron-Neeves.

A police officer killed in the line of duty, a powerful black legislator, a ruthless union leader and a Burger King cashier killed in an East Harlem shooting are among the winners of a street renaming bill passed by the City Council on Thursday.

Crystal Byron-Nives was shot and killed while working the night shift at a Burger King restaurant in Manhattan.

The 47-to-0 bill came under scrutiny for including Elijah Muhammad, the controversial late leader of the Nation of Islam, who would be honored as a street name in Harlem.

But the vast majority of the winners did not cause controversy.

Labor leader Eddie Kay, 27 January 2018

Among them were Wilbert Mora, a police officer killed in a shootout in a Harlem apartment; Eddie Kay, a charismatic trade unionist with a husky voice; and Crystal Byron-Nieves, the adored cashier who was killed during a late shift at Burger King at Lexington Avenue and 116th Street in Manhattan. All three died last winter.

The law will also name Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood after Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old black boy who was shot dead by a white police officer in 1973. Intersection of 112th Road and Guy R. Brewer Blvd. will become Clifford Glover Road.

An undated photograph of NYPD officer Wilbert Mohr who was involved in the January 21, 2022 police shooting in New York City.

With Mayor Adams’ signature, the intersection of Kip Street and S. Third Street in Williamsburg would be named Detective Wilbert Mora Street. The intersection of Avenues N and E. 19th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn will become Eddie Kay Way. Kristal Nieves Way will mark the quarter where the fast food worker died.

Albert Vann, a pioneering black political leader who died in July, will be honored at the intersection of McDonough and Stuyvesant Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. This place will become honorable. Dr. Albert Vann Way.

Council Member Al Vann, February 8, 2010

During Thursday’s vote, Councilman Chi Osse, a Brooklyn Democrat, called Vann a “political giant.”

“This is the body that knows all about Dr. Vann’s commitment and investment in his home in Bed Sty and Crown Heights, and in this city,” Osse said. “Let all who walk our streets look up and see here the name of our hometown: Al Vann, the pioneer of political Black Brooklyn.”

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