Community Calls For Renaming Of Chinatown Street For Army Private Who Committed Suicide After Hazing

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By NY1News

Community board members voted unanimously Tuesday to honor Danny Chen, the army private who killed himself in Afghanistan after weeks of hazing by fellow soldiers, by naming a street in Chinatown after him. NY1's Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.

Danny Chen's mother, Su Zhen Chen, pleaded her case to community board members through a interpreter.

"I want my son's name on Elizabeth Street so that my son will never be forgotten," she said through an interpreter.

Su Zhen Chen told the community board that her boy was born on Elizabeth Street and grew up in Chinatown.

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