Long and flat green park. Named after Danny Aiello of movie stardom!
Danny Aiello lied about being 18 (he was 16) to enter the US Army during WW 2. He starred in baseball movies and soon in such films as 'Bang The Drum Slowly' (a baseball film 1973), 'Radio Days' (1987), 'Leon: The Professional' (1994), 'Do The Right Thing' (1989) and 'Brooklyn Lobster' (2005) 'The Neighborhood' (2017).
He is infamous for movie roles that were diverse, interesting, in-your-face, real and quirky. Danny Aiello came from the bottom, after his father left his mother and six siblings. His first jobs included being a bouncer and bus driver. He was born in Manhattan, married his sweetheart at 23 after the war and passed at the age of 86 in New Jersey in 2019. This stretch of green park along the Long Island Sound near New Rochelle in the Bronx - is named after lively New York actor and local talent Danny Aiello. read more