STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Honoring a tireless advocate for North Shore residents who died in 2022, there is now a Joseph Carroll Way at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Clove Road.
The honorary street renaming ceremony was held Friday, June 30, and was attended by a mix of family and friends, including current and past elected officials.
Carroll was the district manager for Staten Island’s Community Board 1 for nearly four decades. He was 74 when he died.
Joseph Carroll pictured in 2013. (Staten Island Advance File Photo.)
“Joe went above and beyond to help anybody and everybody,” said Lisa Crosby, a longtime staff member at the Community Board 1 office in Clifton, at the time of his death.
Crosby was on hand and snapping photos at the street renaming.
As perhaps the longest serving leader of one of the city’s 59 Community Boards, Carroll was a government liaison for residents of Port Ivory, Shore Acres and two dozen North Shore neighborhoods in between. Working with a small staff at 1 Edgewater Plaza and a board of 40 unsalaried members appointed by the borough president, no issue was too big or too small for Carroll to tackle when it came to improving the delivery of city services to his constituents.
He was remembered fondly by many members of the community after his death.
HONORS FOR STATEN ISLANDERS IN 2023
Carroll is one of 17 Staten Islanders to be memorialized with street renamings in 2023. In addition, the intersection of Kiswick Avenue and Midland Avenue was renamed for Ismail Qemali, an Albanian politician and statesman who is often called “the father of the nation” in Albania.
Anthony Varvaro (Courtesy/PAPD), Philip Carollo (Courtesy/Erin Carollo), Benjamin Prine (Photo courtesy of the Staten Island Historical Society), Josephine “Pat” Miller (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel), David Frey and Jahade “Panda” Chancey (Facebook) are among the 18 Staten Islanders who will have streets renamed after them.
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