Dozens of residents, officials and activists gathered in Jackson Heights Monday to celebrate the official co-naming of 26 blocks of 34th Avenue as Paseo Park, marking another milestone in the transformation of the formerly typical roadway into an elongated open plaza with highly limited motor vehicle access.

Attendees enjoyed speeches, music, dance and food, along with the always-exciting removal of the cover revealing the new sign.

That happened at the corner of 34th Avenue and 77th Street. But the Paseo Park sign sitting above the street there will be only one of several. More will be going up at 70th and 93rd streets. And 77th also will get a larger mast arm sign, the kind that hangs over a street.

In addition to those, 26 square signs bearing the Parks Department’s leaf symbol — eve

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