A Staten Island street was renamed Sunday in honor of a parks worker who was killed 50 years ago during a botched golf-course burglary – and never got to see his two sons grow up to be hero NYPD cops.
Arthur Leahy was the first city parks worker to die on the job when he was killed April 6, 1975, as three assailants tried to break into the LaTourette Park golf course clubhouse overnight, according to City Councilman David Carr (R-Staten Island).
“Arthur C. Leahy Way” now faces the entrance to the park at the corner of Richmond Hill and Forest Hill roads — after what the tragic worker’s family says was a long-fought struggle to get him recognition.
“It is so appropriate that we honor our local hometown heroes in this way, who, for the most part, are everyday, ordinary folks, common people, rendering uncommon service, and that’s no exception in this case,” Carr told the crowd of dozens gathered for Sunday’s commemoration…