Author will be read forever in Leif Ericson Park
The NYC Parks Department recently renamed a part of Leif Ericson Park after the late Bay Ridge author Gilbert Sorrentino.
Sorrentino Square, at Fourth Avenue and 67th Street, was dedicated in December. Community Board 10 member Henry Stewart, a big fan of the postmodernist writer, came up with the idea of naming something in the neighborhood for him.
Josephine Beckmann, the district manager of CB 10, suggested a few potential sites, and Stewart thought of the park.