Huntington To Dedicate Street To Late 9/11 Hero

HUNTINGTON, NY — Lloyd Frazier's name is about to become immortalized in the Town of Huntington.

Town officials, family and friends of Frazier, including representatives of Ronald McDonald House Charities, will gather for a street dedication in the name of the late Chambers Street "Hotel McDonalds" owner, who provided a safe haven and 700,000 free meals to 9/11 Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers, on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Court in Huntington, the Town announced.

Frazier, a lifelong Town of Huntington resident, lost his battle with 9/11-related respiratory illness on Jan. 17, 2006 at the age of 53.

McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches, coffee and donuts are being donated for the ceremony by Lloyd Frazier’s son, Steven Frazier, owner of the McDonald's located at 729 Route 110 in Melville.

At its Aug. 6 meeting, the Town Board renamed Highland Court in Huntington to be known as Lloyd Frazier Way/Highland Court, after the McDonald’s owner on Chambers Street in Manhattan who saved the lives of a police officer and a fire fighter, pulling them inside his store on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center towers fell and the streets were engulfed by blackness.

His McDonald’s restaurant came to be known as a safe haven for all the first responders and workers at Ground Zero, nicknamed "Hotel McDonald’s." Frazier’s McDonald’s mobile unit provided 700,000 free meals to fire fighters, police officers, emergency responders and rescue workers.

The ceremony will be held at Highland Court & Lawrence Hill Road, Huntington.