ATTN: Law & Order Fans!

[Pryderi]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/nyregion/07rename.html?pagewanted=print

March 7, 2007
Jerry Orbach Was a Marquee Name, but a Street Sign’s Another Story
By PATRICK McGEEHAN

It is a tribute that has been paid to Peter Jennings, Humphrey Bogart, Joey Ramone, even Señor Wences. But getting a Manhattan street corner named for Jerry Orbach, former star of stage and screen and consummate New Yorker, will be no open-and-shut case.

Mr. Orbach may have been nominated three times for Tony Awards as a song-and-dance man on Broadway and he may have owned the role of the cynical New York City detective as Lennie Briscoe on “Law & Order.” But he still may not make the cut to have his name placed on a street sign in Midtown.

Mr. Orbach’s widow, Elaine, is learning that having a city block or a corner renamed for somebody is not as simple as the jumble of honorary signs might suggest. As in so many other matters of real estate, location may be the deciding factor.

Her target is 53rd Street and Eighth Avenue, where she and her late husband lived for 25 years before he died in December 2004 at age 69. “This was his neighborhood,” Mrs. Orbach said in an interview.

[Tikki]

1. My adult son named his....

golden retriever....Lennie T. Briscoe; in honor and all.




Tikki

[RevCheesehead]

2. If anyone deserved this honor, it's Jerry Orbach.

I miss him still. :cry:

[fizzgig]

3. i miss him

:cry:

[ellisonz]

4. Joey Ramone, that punk! Give Lennie a whole street!

[Katina]

5. Did you also know

that Jerry Orbach had perfect eyesight so he signed up to be an organ donor. The chemo for his cancer didn't affect his corneas so now two people can see because of his gift. His wife said he would be very happy about that. What a class act. Loved him in the Fantasticks!