Yonkers Insider: City of Yonkers: CITY OF YONKERS TO REDEDICATE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE IN HONOR OF CITY OF YONKERS’ 1ST AFRICAN AMERICAN COUNCILMAN, JOSEPH E. BURGESS, JR.- Thurs. 6/15 @ 2 P.M.

 

CITY OF YONKERS TO REDEDICATE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE IN HONOR OF

CITY OF YONKERS’ 1^ST AFRICAN AMERICAN COUNCILMAN, JOSEPH E. BURGESS, JR.

 

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano along with the Yonkers City Council will re-dedicate the pedestrian bridge connecting Yonkers City Hall to the Cacace Justice Center on Nepperhan Avenue in honor and memory of the City’s first African American Councilman, Joseph E. Burgess, Jr., Thursday, June 15, at 2:00PM, at the Unity Fountain at Yonkers City Hall.

 

Joseph E. Burgess, Jr. was the first African American to be elected to the Yonkers City Council in 1983, representing  the city’s 1^st Ward. In 1992, he was appointed as the Deputy Human Resources Commissioner and frequently gave presentations to students in Yonkers Public Schools. The City of Yonkers originally dedicated the bridge to Burgess on June 5, 1995, however a permanent plaque was never installed to commemorate the designation.