Forty-Eighth Street Named After Goldberg
By Rob Bates -- JCK Online, 8/1/2006 2:00:00 AM
Forty-eighth Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues in New York is now officially known as William Goldberg Way.
The street, where Goldberg had long kept his office, was named after the charismatic former Diamond Dealers Club president in a ceremony attended by Sen. Charles Schumer.
“Willie Goldberg was a giant of a man,” Schumer said. “I remember the first time I met him. I immediately could see he was a special person. He looked different, he talked different, he asked me a million different questions. You immediately bonded with Willie Goldberg. He was filled with passion, and he didn't take any guff from anyone. And he is as alive today as the day he was taken from us.”
In remarks later, daughter Eve Goldberg-Volkmar, who works at her father's company, noted that “once you met my father, you never forgot him.”
47th Street May Be Named After Goldberg
07/31/2005Obituary: William Goldberg
11/30/2003Panel to Dealers: Find Another Career
04/30/2001
