Slain NYC parks worker honored with street renaming 50 years after death: ‘It means so much’

Fuente: New York Post

A Staten Island street was renamed Sunday in honor of a parks worker who was killed 50 years ago during a botched golf-course burglary – and never got to see his two sons grow up to be hero NYPD cops. Arthur Leahy was the first city parks worker to die on the job when he was killed April 6, 1975, as three assailants tried to break into the LaTourette Park golf course clubhouse overnight, according to City Councilman David Carr (R-Staten Island). “Arthur C.