Sewell Chan
NYTimes.com
The groundbreaking hip-hop trio Run-DMC, which emerged from the streets of Hollis, Queens, in the 1980s and shattered musical barriers with their 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith, will be honored with the symbolic renaming of a street corner in Hollis, under City Council legislation adopted on Tuesday.
The corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue in Hollis will be rechristened Run-DMC JMJ Way, after the group’s D.J., Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay, who was fatally shot in a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, at age 37, in October 2002.
Councilman Leroy G. Comrie, the Queens Democrat who represents the area and sponsored the legislation, noted that Mr. McDaniels had donated memorabilia for the establishment of a proposed Hollis Hip Hop Museum, in the former Hollis Famous Burger establishment at 203rd Street and Hollis Avenue.
“It is my sincere hope that this street renaming, combined with the museum, will help to economically revitalize this particular neighborhood as a potential tourism attraction,” said Mr. Comrie, who also noted the presence nearby of a mural in Mr. Mizell’s memory.
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