Daily News | A fighter throughout his life, T. Milton Street was laid to rest on Friday
“How do you say goodbye to your heroes?” State Sen. Sharif Street asked at the gathering that brought together family, friends and community members.
Street’s earliest bouts of public troublemaking came because of his entrepreneurial ambitions. He became outraged over the disparate legal treatment of the city’s street vendors, who were largely Black. He started a battle for recognition of street vending as a legitimate form of business instead of a nuisance to be quashed — a move that pitted him against the city’s political and business establishment.In 1975, City Council tried to pass legislation that would ban sidewalk vendors downtown.
Brady ended his remembrance with what he called his best Milton Street story. Street had been summoned to Traffic Court to handle his tickets. The court was crowded, and the proceedings, slow. Street, he said, grew impatient, jumped on the judge’s desk, said he was throwing the judge off the bench, and dismissed his own tickets.
“If we choose not to advance that legacy, to do the work that he did with the passion he did it, we do it to our own disadvantage.”The controversy of Street’s ideas, like legalizing cannabis, and his antics, overshadowed the progress he made. He became nationally recognized for helping transform the nation’s housing policy in a way that promoted sweat equity by inviting low-income residents helped repair vacant units to live in, forestalling gentrification and displacement..
Street’s brother, John, the former mayor, sang a hymn at the service in a booming voice. “I knew that this would turn into something very spiritual and emotional,” he told the audience. But he also reminded them of the other side of his brother. “Having spent hours with my brother during the last days of his life, he was a fun guy.” Street, he added was devoted to his mission, no matter the cost, and in the process became the progenitor of a political legacy.
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