A Williamsburg\u00a0street was renamed on Sunday for a man who helped put Brooklyn’s live music scene on the map.<\/p>\n
The community gave Billy Jones a permanent place in the neighborhood he helped shape by renaming a stretch of Broadway for the man who gave countless artists a stage and a reason to keep dreaming.<\/p>\n
Jones, who died last year at 45 after a year-long battle with brain cancer, helped shape Brooklyn\u2019s independent music scene alongside his friend Zachery Mexico when they opened Baby\u2019s All Right in 2013.<\/p>\n
Those who knew Jones say his legacy goes beyond the venue.<\/p>\n
Friends and family remember him as someone who gave aspiring musicians opportunities, offered people a platform to perform and helped others find their place in the industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was my mentor, friend, business partner…everything in between,\u201d said Tom Moor, who described Jones as an important influence in his life.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 family joined members of the community for the street renaming ceremony to celebrate his contributions to Williamsburg and the people whose lives he touched.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo know that Billy was an integral part of bringing the music scene back to Brooklyn…that\u2019s really what we are celebrating tonight,\u201d said Ned Jones, Billy\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
Nicole Holland, his sister, said Jones wanted everyone to feel supported and included.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted everyone…everyone to feel supported, to feel heard, to feel joy, to have fun and to live life,” Holland said.<\/p>\n
The new street sign serves as a lasting tribute to Jones and the community he helped build \u2014 one rooted in live music, opportunity and making room for others to follow their dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Williamsburg\u00a0street was renamed on Sunday for a man who helped put Brooklyn’s live music scene on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-376577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376577","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=376577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}