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Marvel creator Jack Kirby gets the NYC street of his childhood named after him

Ruben Bolling
Dec 22, 2025
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Essex Street, between Delancey and Rivington Streets on Manhattan’s Lower East Side will be permanently named Jack Kirby Way, after the famed Marvel Comics creator who was born on 147 Essex Street on August 28, 1917.

Link to an article by Taimur Dar on ComicsBeat.com is here.

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