The ‘Black Benjie Way’: Bronx Peacemaker and Ghetto Brother Whose Killing Led To Historic Gang Truce Honored With Street Naming | THE CITY – NYC News

More than 50 years after he lost his life serving as a peacemaker in the South Bronx, the intersection of East 165 Street and Rogers Place in Longwood has been officially renamed Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin Way. 
— Read on www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/