City officially renames street after Brooklyn Eagle’s Tom Kane
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Tom Kane, the late journalist, actor, playwright, theater impresario and civic leader who helped children and the less fortunate has been immortalized by New York City, which officially dedicated the Bay Ridge street where he grew up in his name during a touching and memorable ceremony on Saturday.
Colonial Road and 88th Street will forevermore be called “Tom Kane Way,” in memory of Kane, who died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 53. The new street sign was unveiled in the outdoor ceremony led by Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) and attended by Kane’s family and hundreds of people whose lives he had touched.
“Each one of us that has come together today was knit together by Tom Kane,” the Rev. Gerard Sauer, a personal friend of Kane’s, said in his invocation.