According to am NewYork’s Alex Mitchell, two Bronx councilwomen, Vanessa Gibson and Diana Ayala, are planning to introduce legislation to rename part of E. 161st Street “Jeter Street,” after New York Yankees legend and former captain, Derek Jeter.
They seek to do it so that “Jeter Street” intersects “Rivera Avenue,” the part of River Avenue that was named after former Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera after he was unanimously inducted into the Hall of Fame last year.
Jeter, who spent his entire 19-year career with the Yankees, is a New York sports icon, and this move shows how much he has meant to Yankees fans and to the city of New York.