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Bed-Stuy street renamed to honor slain teen Yusuf Hawkins

Hawkins was killed on Aug. 23, 1989, after he and his three friends, who were also Black, went to a mostly white neighborhood in Bensonhurst to look at a used car that was for sale.

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