The late matriarch of a Queens political dynasty was honored Sunday, July 30, during a street co-naming celebration in Fresh Meadows.
State and city officials gathered at the northeast corner of 192nd Street and 67th Avenue to unveil Sylvia Weprin Way, just around the corner from Saul Weprin Street, named for her husband who served as New York State Assembly speaker from 1991 until he died in 1994 at age 66.
Sylvia Weprin passed away last October at age 92, having emigrated from Cuba to the United States when she was 8 years old in 1938. After graduating from Brooklyn College, she became a teacher and taught biology and chemistry in English and Spanish and Hebrew for three decades at Jamaica, Long Island City and Hillcrest high schools, while raising the couple’s three sons, David, Mark and Barry. She retired from teaching in 1991 to join her husband in Albany where she became a popular figure on both sides of the aisle in the state Legislature.
