(JNS) On Monday, Oct. 19, leaders of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC) and multiple, high-ranking elected officials gathered at the corner of Second Avenue and East 47th Street in Manhattan to unveil a new street sign which is now co-named Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Way.

“The street sign carries a simple but powerful message. We are here, we belong here and we’re not going anywhere,” said Mark Treyger, CEO of the council.

“Our story is about more than antisemitism,” he told attendees. “We are the descendants of immigrants, refugees, Holocaust survivors, who helped build the city in this country that we love so deeply.”

The Jewish community has “helped shape New York and America,” he said. “The street co-naming is a small but meaningful recognition of those contributions.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) sat in the front of a modest-sized crowd at the sign unveiling ceremony. Letitia James, attorney general of New York, told attendees that she will “always stand with the Jewish community.”

“Shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, with no space or daylight between us, to take on antisemitism, discrimination and hate,” she said. “Because combating antisemitism cannot be the responsibility of the Jewish people alone.”

Julie Menin, the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, and Virginia Maloney, a City Council member whose district includes the street corner, co-sponsored the motion to name the corner for the JCRC, a process which the City Council must approve. Both Menin and Maloney attended the event, as did Eric Dinowitz, chair of the council’s Jewish caucus and co-chair of its bipartisan task force on Jew-hatred.

Jumaane Williams, the New York City public advocate, and Mark Levine, city comptroller, also attended the event.

“Over the years, we’ve gathered here, near Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, in moments of crisis, moments of solidarity and moments when our collective voices needed to be heard,” Treyger said at the event. “Like just recently, during the United Nations general assembly. Through it all, we continue to show up.”