{"id":14102,"date":"2016-09-28T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:11:01","slug":"10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/","title":{"rendered":"10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking it to the streets \u2014 via Flickr user Gord McKenna Street names are underused form of public salute. Every once in a while we change one to celebrate a former mayor or something, but for the most part we&#8217;re stuck with boring old numbers and letters. Coney Island hot dog tycoons Nathan and Ida Handwerker got their own street earlier this summer.\u00a0Bensonhurst Bean\u00a0reports\u00a0that the neighborhood is renaming several more streets after its local heroes over the next few weeks. But why should hot dog celebrities\u00a0and\u00a0war heroes\u00a0get to have all the recognition? They already have that other stuff. \u00a0Here&#8217;s\u00a0a list of 10 underrated Brooklynites and\u00a0honorary locals that\u00a0we&#8217;d\u00a0like to see given their own street names. \u201cChristopher Swain Way\u201d \u2014\u00a09th St. between Smith St. and 2nd Ave. This stretch of 9th street goes right over the Gowanus Canal, and last year clean waterway activist Christopher Swain swam that very canal without dying. Swain dove into the&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/nice-to-street-you\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking it to the streets \u2014 via Flickr user Gord McKenna Street names are underused form of public <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":14103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names - Brooklyn News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Taking it to the streets \u2014 via Flickr user Gord McKenna Street names are underused form of public\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Brooklyn News and Events\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-28T20:11:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jon Freeman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jon Freeman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/\",\"name\":\"10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names - Brooklyn News and Events\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1475093638Brokelyn.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-28T20:11:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/#\/schema\/person\/1130e29b270d189bf1efcbd308ea4431\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1475093638Brokelyn.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1475093638Brokelyn.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/10-people-who-deserve-their-own-brooklyn-street-names\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"10 people who deserve their own Brooklyn street names\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/\",\"name\":\"Brooklyn News and Events\",\"description\":\"For What&#039;s Buzzin&#039; 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