{"id":215631,"date":"2026-04-30T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:15:38","slug":"jack-kirby-way-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215631\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Kirby Way &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-197889 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jack-Kirby-Street-Naming-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\"  \/>New York City is naming a block of Essex St. on the Lower East Side Jack Kirby Way, in honor of the Marvel Universe co-creator and pop art pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>The street naming ceremony is scheduled for Monday, May 11 at 12 pm, at the corner of Essex &amp; Delancey Streets. It\u2019ll be attended by the Kirby family, city dignitaries, and a who\u2019s who of the comics industry.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include NYC Council Member Christopher Marte, Marvel\u2019s EIC C. B. Cebulski, and Jack Kirby\u2019s family, daughter Lisa and grandchildren Jeremy and Tracey.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby has a strong connection to the Lower East Side, not Queens, but it\u2019s still a story about NYC finally recognizing its own. One fun connection is that Kirby played a part in the creation of Spider-Man (though the credited co-creators are Stan Lee and Steve Ditko), who\u2019s of course a Queens boy, and Kirby drew the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15, Spidey\u2019s very first appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is naming a block of Essex St. on the Lower East Side Jack Kirby Way,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-215631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}