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Paul Greer
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Posted: 09 July 2025 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

NYC Names Street after
Jack Kirby
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Posted: 09 July 2025 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Somewhere, Mark Gruenwald is smiling……..
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 09 July 2025 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Looks like they just put up a single sign , and intentionally off to the side of the intersection to not confuse motorists. Took me a moment to figure out why they used Blue instead of the official Green color for NYC road signage. Duh.

It's not a true "renaming" of Delancy Street in any way, but still a nice honorary gesture. Stan Lee got a similar sign in the Bronx a few years back: LINK
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Posted: 09 July 2025 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Yasher Koach, Jacob Kurtzberg...!
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John Young
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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 1:41am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

pretty cool!
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 4:29am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Excellent
I remember when Wolverhampton train station was renamed Wolverine
station.

As a kid, I never thought we would see such recognition.
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I remember that James, had to do a double take when i saw
it on the local news! Sure i still have a pic somewhere!

Similarly when Superman hid Lois Lane for her own safety in
Heath Town, an area of Wolverhampton with a rough
reputation! Think it was in a Lois Lane comic?
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 11:40am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

I will, of course, forever get a kick out of this, as I
used to live just down the road from its inspiration

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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 11:56am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I’m sure I have mentioned that Ha’penny Green is where my mother was stationed during WW2.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

You did - I remembered you saying that when I first asked
if there was a connection.
So much Byrne family history around the Midlands
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Posted: 10 July 2025 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Indeed! Factor in the Hulme side (my mother’s family) and we’re all over the place!

(Imagine if I had decided to use my mother’s maiden name as a pen name! People have enough trouble pronouncing “Byrne”!)

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