Bay Ridge corner named after bike shop owner
Patrice Capo volunteered at WTC recovery effort
A Bay Ridge woman whose love of bicycling made her famous in the community was memorialized in a street sign on the corner across from the bike shop she owned.
In a ceremony on April 8, Councilmember Vincent Gentile unveiled a new street sign in memory of Patrice Capo, who died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 52. The sign is located on the corner of Third Avenue and 90th Street, across from Bay Ridge Bicycle World, the shop Capo owned.
Gentile, who sponsored legislation in the City Council to pave the way for the street corner naming, said Capo did a great deal to promote health and wellness habits in her fellow Bay Ridge residents.