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3 • TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 FOREVER REMEMBERED City To Rename Brooklyn Streets For Slain Police Officers by Robert Pozarycki City lawmakers announced last Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, they would move quickly to rename two Brooklyn streets in honor of two police officers assassinated on duty earlier in the month. Ridgewood Avenue between sitting in their patrol car on Shepherd Avenue and Highland special detail in Bedford- Place in Cypress Hills will be Stuyvesant. Their renamed Det. Rafael Ramos Way, killer—Ismaaiyl Brinsley of while a block of West Sixth Street Baltimore, who reportedly between Avenues S and T in traveled to New York City with Gravesend will be renamed Det. the intent to kill police officers— Wenjian Liu Way. The officers took his own life shortly after the resided on these blocks. double homicide. Ramos and Liu, both assigned Police Commissioner William to the 84th Precinct, were fatally Bratton posthumously promoted shot on Dec. 20, 2014 while Ramos and Liu to first-grade detectives. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark- Viverito announced last Wednesday legislation authorizing the ceremonial renaming would be introduced and voted on during the City Council’s second stated meeting scheduled for later this month. “Our fallen heroes will never Detectives Wenjian Liu (at left)-SEE STREETS ON PG. 24- and Rafael Ramos Second Slain Officer Laid To Rest In Cypress Hills Hundreds of police officers and other mourners lined Jamaica Avenue near the entrance to Cypress Hills Cemetery on Sunday, Jan. 4, to bid a final farewell to P.O. Wenjian Liu. The officer, along with his partner, P.O. Rafael Ramos, were gunned down on Dec. 20, 2014 while on patrol in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Police Commissioner William Bratton posthumously promoted both officers to first-grade detectives. Funeral services for Liu took place on Sunday morning at Aievoli & Sons Funeral Home in Dyker Heights, where Bratton along with Mayor Bill de Blasio and other government officials paid tribute to the seven-year NYPD veteran. (photos: Marcin Zurawicz) Here’s A Glimpse Of What’s In This Week’s Times Newsweekly... 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