Huntington Road Renaming For Late Bishop: Info

HUNTINGTON, NY — A Huntington road will bear the name of the late Bishop Norris Porter, memorializing him, at a ceremony scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, Town Councilman Salvatore Ferro announced.

Porter, a community and spiritual leader, co-founded Christian Charities Deliverance Church in 1974. Spring Road, at the intersection of Nassau Road, will bear the name Bishop Norris Porter Way/Spring Road. Ferro will be joined by the Huntington Town Board and Reverend Bernadette Watkins.

Porter was an advocate for the Huntington community and president of the Huntington Clergy.

"The ceremony will highlight his selflessness, which included helping local residents with housing issues, food insecurity, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and job opportunities," Ferro's Office wrote in a news release. "His compassionate words reached a wider audience through his Long Island radio ministry."

Members of the Porter family and Christian Charities Deliverance Church will accept a proclamation and ceremonial street sign in Porter's honor.

Porter died in 2022.

He was born in 1939 and graduated from Walt Whitman High School, Huntington Now reported.

"He was a great man," Al White, who worked with Porter on several projects, told Huntington Now. "He tried to help out every aspect of the community."