Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, City Councilmember Alan Gerson and the United Jewish Council dedicated a new street sign last Friday at the corner of Cherry St. and the F.D.R. Drive, co-naming it Firefighter Robert Foti Way. Foti, a resident of the Lower Eaast Side, died while responding to the World Trade Center attacks on Spt. 11, 2001. Above from left to right, Silver, Gerson and firefighter Foti’s children, James, Alycia, and Robert, Joel Kaplan, U.J.C. executive director, who emceed the memorial, and David Weinberger of the United Jewish Council, at rear.
