Local legend Anthony Neglia gets his own corner
As the children and grandchildren of Anthony Neglia joinedCouncilmember Domenic Recchia in pulling the white paper coveringoff of the new Anthony Neglia Way at Bay 34th Street and 86thStreet on Thursday, November 10, the paper got stuck and thepull-string tore off, leaving the sign saying simply: AnthonyNeg. Everyone immediately broke out into grins and shook theirheads.
Well, he liked to be called The Neg’ anyway, chuckled hisnephew Peter Neglia. He had a license plate that said THE NEG,’added Neglia’s eldest daughter Marianne Malone; her brother,Anthony Christopher Neglia, noting, This means he’s here [with ustoday] and approves [of the sign].
Street co-namings may seem small and insignificant in the grandscheme of things, but to the residents and neighborhoods touched bythose being memorialized, it’s a priceless action and the leastthat those still living can do for those, like Bensonhurst-borncommunity leader and businessperson Anthony Neglia, who earned thehonor