Named after West 79th Street; a bill proposes adding Saul Zabar’s name.
79th Street was one of the 15 crosstown streets that the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 set at 100 feet wide. After the death of Saul Zabar, owner of Zabar’s delicatessen, the MTA put up posters commemorating him in the station in October 2025. A bill by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, introduced in November 2025, would rename it ‘79th Street–Saul Zabar’; it was still in committee in late 2026.