Senator Kaminsky Honors the Late Detective McDonald with Highway Renaming

CRAIG SCHNEIDER AND JOHN VALENTI FROM NEWSDAY

Originally published in Newsday: Parkway renaming Friday honors fallen NYPD Det. Steven McDonald

How fitting it is that the latest honor for fallen police hero Steven McDonald should be the renaming of a highway for him, replete with road signs. Road signs, doing precisely what he did: giving people direction.

“For generations to come, people from all over New York City and Long Island will see his name and wonder: Who was Det. Steven McDonald?” New York City First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said during a ceremony Friday on the renaming of the stretch of the Southern State Parkway. “Each time that happens, it will be one more opportunity to tell Steven’s story and share his message of compassion, empathy and self-sacrifice.”

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