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(Scroll down for video) A street in Brooklyn, New York was recently named after a murdered Hasidic Jew.
New York City changed the name of an intersection in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York, for a Hasidic Jew, who died trying to protect his girlfriend during a botched robbery of a kosher liquor store.
Avenue J and Nostrand Avenue will soon have a sign saying "Yoseph Robinson Avenue" to honor Robinson, a 34-year-old employee at MB Vineyards. He was shot to death in August 2010.
A masked man held up Robinson and his girlfriend Lahavah Wallace, demanding that she hand over her jewelry. The robber shot Robinson in the chest when he tried to grab the suspect’s gun away.
Wallace spent months working with Councilman Jumaane Williams, Democrat, Midwood, to honor the memory of her boyfriend with a street sign in the city.
"This will allow those who did not know him to ask who he was," Wallace said.
Robinson, a Jamaican who converted to Orthodox Judaism, maintained close ties to both cultures.
"Maybe we can still be the bridge for communities in some way. It's a fitting tribute and honor to an amazing man," Wallace said.
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