A Brooklyn streetcorner now bears the name of a firefighter killed in a 2007 blaze in a toxic skyscraper near ground zero.

The southwest corner of 77th Street and 13th Avenue became Firefighter Joey Graffagnino (graff-ahn-NYEEN'-oh) Place on Saturday. He lived nearby.

Graffagnino and fellow firefighter Robert Beddia died at the former Deutsche Bank building on Aug. 18, 2007.

They confronted a maze of hazards at the building, which was being cleaned of toxic debris and dismantled. Prosecutors are investigating various failures at the government-run project.

Graffagnino's widow, Linda, says she was touched by Saturday's ceremony. She says the couple's 2-year-old son remains too young to understand what happened to his father, but their 5-year-old daughter speaks of him often.

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