One man’s dream has finally been realized. Van Sicklen Street was christened with a second name on March 10, as local politicians and the community gathered to see the “Association Caggianesi D’America Way” street sign raised on the corner of Van Sicklen and Avenue T.

Joseph Caggiano, an early president of the Association Caggianesi D’America, was the first person to push for the sign’s installation, said his son, Mario Caggiano. Joseph lived on Van Sicklen Street for 53 years. Like many families on the block and around the neighborhood, the Caggianos are Caggianesi, that is, people whose families hail from Caggiano, a village in the Italian province of Salerno.