Street Naming Ceremony for Janine Pommy Vega

With Mayor Brian Stack’s support, Union City Commissioners prepared a resolution to name a street after poet and Union City resident Janine Pommy Vega. The street sign will be on the corner of 47th Street and Palisade Avenue, and will be called Janine Pommy Vega Way. This is where her family’s house once stood, now replaced by a community indoor swimming pool. After the unveiling, a reception and poetry event will be held to more fully share Janine’s work and celebrate her life. It’s fitting that after all these years, the city where she was raised is acknowledging and honoring her as one of their own.

The ceremony will include readings from Hoboken Historical Museum Poet in Resident Danny Shot and Washington Park Association Poet in Residence Yetvart S. Majian, and remarks about Janine Pommy Vega by Vera Sirota, Communications Associate at the Hoboken Historical Museum.