Star of Brooklyn: Tony Giordano
Executive Director, Sunset Park Restoration
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Tony Giordano has been involved in civic work in Sunset Park since the age of 17. From walking every avenue in Sunset Park with his friends back then, counting the number of wastebaskets on every avenue and noticing there were only six spanning 97 intersections, to helping the community library save thousands of dollars in restoration costs, Giordano has become the eyes and ears of Sunset Park.
As executive director of Sunset Park Restoration, which Giordano calls the “oldest and largest volunteer civic group,” he was able to organize a clean-up of the graffiti-ridden Sunset Park Library on 51st Street.