Hero surfer Dylan Smith will be remembered with a street renaming two years after he saved his Rockaway neighbors during Hurricane Sandy

Hero surfer Dylan Smith will be remembered with a street renaming two years after he saved his Rockaway neighbors during Hurricane Sandy

Dylan Smith, 23, died a few weeks later in a surfing accident. But family and friends want his life remembered. Dylan Smith Way will mark the corner of Newport Ave. and Beach 130th St. The new sign will be unveiled on Saturday at 2 p.m.

BY Lisa L. Colangelo

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, October 23, 2014, 7:09 PM

 

  Dylan Smith, the Rockaway surfer who helped rescue his neighbors from raging waters during Hurricane Sandy, is being memorialized on a corner in his hometown.

Almost two years to the day he rescued neighbors from the raging waters of Hurricane Sandy, hero surfer Dylan Smith will be remembered with a street renaming in Queens on Saturday.
The corner of Beach 130th St. and Newport Ave. in Belle Harbor is being renamed “Dylan Smith Way.”
Smith tragically died in a surfing accident just weeks after Sandy slammed his Rockaway street with floodwaters and fire.

 

 Anthony DelMundo/Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily Queens Borough President Helen Marshall talks about Dylan Smith, who saved several lives during Hurricane Sandy, as she gives her last and final State of the Borough Address in Colden Auditorium at Queens College located at 65-30 Kissena Boulevard in Queens on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.

He was lauded for using his knowledge as a lifeguard and surfer to ferry people through the water to safety.
The ceremony, which includes Smith’s family, friends and City Councilman Eric Ulrich, starts at 2 p.m. and will go on rain or shine.
lcolangelo@nydailynews.com