Bay Ridge Street Renaming – October 21st at 11:00 am
If you missed the ceremony, you can see pictures of the event from Justin Brannan’s Twitter Page here and see the Daily News story here See flyover here.
There will be a street renaming in honor of a Bay Ridge hero, Police Officer David Guttenberg. October 21, 2017 at 11 am. The corner of 86th and 7th Avenue will be named: “Patrolman David Guttenberg Way.”
Memorial Page here
On December 28 1978, Guttenberg saw a double parked car on the street. He walked into a Dyker Auto Supply Shop Supply Shop (on 86th and between 7th Avenue and Dalgren) to find the owner of the car and give him a chance to move the car (so he didn’t have to ticket him………..quite different than now) and there was a robbery.
Guttenberg was married and had four children. Why did we take son long to acknowledge his service to our community?
But here is something cool: “Christian Durante, a volunteer NYPD auxiliary police sergeant, had made it his mission to honor one of the predecessors beyond the precinct memorial section, which he created. He filed a motion in March for the city to co-name the northwest corner of 86th Street and 7th Avenue, “Patrolman David Guttenberg Way. Durante, 27 was not alive when Officer Guttenberg was shot, but he patrols the same area that Officer Guttenberg did.”
Luis Torres, 33 & Pablo Costello were the men who were robbing the auto supply shop. Torres shot Officer Guttenberg, while Costello served as his lookout man outside the store.
Luis Torres died in prison in 1996.
Pablo Costello, the accomplice served 35 years in prison and after many denied appeals, he was released in 2014 on a technicality.
Hugs,
marlene
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