East 116th Street honours Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico’s first elected governor.
116th Street is one of fifteen 100-foot-wide streets set out in the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811. East of Fifth Avenue it has long been the main business street of Spanish Harlem, and it is also named after Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980), the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico, who served from 1949 to 1965.