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Community Bd. to Reconsider Naming Street to Honor Cop Killed in Iraq

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 11/19/18

A Lower Manhattan community board that voted down a request to co-name a street for the first NYPD Officer killed during the Iraq War may revisit the issue.

The request, by the NYPD’s Transit District Two, to co-name West Broadway between Lispenard and Canal Sts. for Police Officer James D. McNaughton cleared Community Board 1’s transportation committee but was then voted down by the full board on Oct. 23. The board's vote provoked the anger of fellow officers and his family.

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