East Hampton Village officials renamed Buell Lane Extension in honor of the late East Hampton Fire Department Chief Joe DeCristofaro during the village board meeting on June 18.
DeCristofaro, who died in 2023, was a member of the department for almost seven decades after joining in 1956. He lived in a home on Buell Lane Extension just 800 feet outside the village boundaries, so he legally couldn’t be chief. He was, however, named East Hampton Fire Department’s first honorary chief in 2002.
