The idea came from those in the neighborhood, specifically Kathy Weppner, Bill Sullivan and Wilson’s longtime friend David Scott Myers. “I think it is a perfect tribute, because Billy was really known by so many people in the neighborhood,” Myers said. “It really was Billy’s neighborhood.”
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