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Queens Street Corner Will be Named for Run DMC
Queens Street Corner Will Be Named for Run-DMC
By Sewell Chan
Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
Members of the influential hip-hop trio Run-DMC — from left, Joseph Simmons, known as Run; Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC; and Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay — at a Grammy Awards ceremony in the 1980s. Mr. Mizell was slain in 2002. 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.
New York City Council
The corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue in Hollis, Queens, will be known as Run-DMC JMJ Way.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. The killing has not been solved. Mr. Mizell was the third member of the trio, after Joseph Simmons, known as Run, and Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC.
New York City Council
A mural dedicated to Jason Mizell, who was gunned down in 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.
Run-DMC’s fusion of rock and rap was epitomized by its biggest hit single, a cover of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” recorded with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The group disbanded after Mr. Mizell’s death in 2002. In April, the group was inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
By Sewell Chan
Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
Members of the influential hip-hop trio Run-DMC — from left, Joseph Simmons, known as Run; Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC; and Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay — at a Grammy Awards ceremony in the 1980s. Mr. Mizell was slain in 2002. 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.
New York City Council
The corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue in Hollis, Queens, will be known as Run-DMC JMJ Way.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. The killing has not been solved. Mr. Mizell was the third member of the trio, after Joseph Simmons, known as Run, and Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC.
New York City Council
A mural dedicated to Jason Mizell, who was gunned down in 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.
Run-DMC’s fusion of rock and rap was epitomized by its biggest hit single, a cover of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” recorded with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The group disbanded after Mr. Mizell’s death in 2002. In April, the group was inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
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