When You Get to the Fork in the Road, Take Yogi Berra Way
Montclair commemorated baseball legend and resident Yogi Berra by naming a street after him on Saturday.
Montclair memorialized Yankee legend and local resident Yogi Berra this weekend by naming a street after him. On Saturday, the township unveiled Yogi Berra Way, the alternate name for Edgewood Terrace. One of the street signs is located at the fork in the road at Edgewood Terrace and Edgewood Road, which preserves forever one of Berra’s famous adages to his friend Joe Garagiola which he said when giving him directions to his Montclair home: “When you get to the fork in the road, take it.” The other two commemorative street signs were placed at the intersections of Edgewood Terrace and Prospect Avenue, and Edgewood Terrace and Highland Avenue. The Montclair Council voted in November to pay tribute to Berra with the street signs. All …
Joe Kavesh
4:01 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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