The Jackie Robinson Parkway was named in honor of the color-barrier-busting Brooklyn Dodgers baseball legend, who died in 1972, 10 years after his Hall of Fame induction. Photo via Google Maps ...

That's because Jack Roosevelt Robinson is buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery, right off Jamaica Avenue and the Jackie Robinson Parkway ... the cemetery's notables map. Desmond said baseball ...

Brooklyn, near the Cypress Hills stop on the J subway line, also reachable via the Jackie Robinson Parkway. Robinson's ... tall evergreen tree and hedge row. A map can be found at ...

NEW YORK -- New York City's Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that spelled the Baseball Hall of Famer's first name as "Jakie." ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that spelled the baseball Hall of Famer's first name as “Jakie.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that spelled the baseball Hall of Famer’s first name as ...