Justin Yaakov Ephraim Zemser Z”L, the 20-year-old Navy midshipman who was R”L tragically killed in last year’s Amtrak crash in Philadelphia, was honored with a street co-naming outside his high school in Rockaway on Friday.

Friends, family and elected officials gathered outside the Channel View School for Research where Justin Zemser had graduated in 2013 as the class valedictorian.

The NYC Council approved legislation renaming the northwest corner of Seaside Avenue and Beach Channel Drive “Midshipman Justin Zemser Way.”

The Class of 2013 valedictorian at Channel View School for Research, Zemser was in his second year at the United States Naval Academy when he tragically died in the 2015 Amtrak crash while returning to Rockaway for a weekend.

Zemser was one of eight passengers killed when the speeding train derailed in Philadelphia on May 12, 2015.

As YWN reported at the time, immediately after his petira, under the leadership of Rabbi Yaakov Bender, the office staff at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, undertook to learn mishnayos seder moed in his memory.

A siyum was held on his Shloshim to commemorate the completion of that siyum.

A few months later, Mr. Howard Zemser wrote a moving letter to the community, which was published by YWN.

(Dov Gefen – YWN)