The “Boogie Down Bronx” now has a “Hip Hop Boulevard.”
Mayor de Blasio on Thursday signed a bill into law that renames dozens of streets in all five boroughs, including the swath of Sedgewick Avenue in the Bronx where hip hop was born.
With the stroke of a pen, de Blasio christened the block “Hip Hop Boulevard” in honor of the Aug. 11, 1973, party where DJ Kool Herc invented hip hop at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue.
“If you have friends on the west coast, remember to tell them it all started here, okay?” de Blasio said before signing the bill.
DJ Kool Herc, his sister Cindy “First Lady of Hip Hop” Campbell — the host of the “back to school” jam where it all went down — and legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa all attended the bill signing.
On a more somber note, the street renamings bill also included plans to rename streets after three cops who died in the line of duty — Detective Randolph Holder, Police Officer Kenneth Anthony Nugent, and Police Officer Kevin Joseph Gillespie.
Part of Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn will be renamed after former aide to Gov. Cuomo Carey Gabay, who was gunned down right before the West Indian Day Parade last year.
