Black gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin Way named in Nyack

NYACK - The small village street that's now named "Bayard Rustin Way" was once home to rows of Black-owned homes before the road was truncated to make space for parking lots and high-rise affordable housing. 

Next to that new street sign sits the Phyllis B. Frank Rockland County Pride Center, which bought a shuttered brick building that was once an Elks Lodge, a hub of that vibrant Black community. 

The street's location, in many ways, summed up the legacy of Rustin, a civil rights leader whose . . .