Patrolman Arthur J. Kenny (d. 1926) served the NYPD for three years with the 60th Precinct (the present-day 110th Precinct) before he was killed in the line of duty by a notorious burglar.

In the spring of 1926, residents of Woodhaven were fearful of the "Radio Burglar." Targeting the relatively new and expensive home technology, the Radio Burglar was suspected in between 50 and 100 home break-ins where the radio had been stolen.

In early March, the Radio Burglar shot and injured an officer who had stopped to question him about the large item he was carrying down the street after midnight. On March 25th, when police responded to a woman's call about suspicious activity at her neighbor's home, the suspect shot another officer. Kenney and another policeman took off in chase after the suspect. With officers all over the area, when Kenney ran into the suspect, he thought he was another cop. The suspect told him, "I think the man you’re looking for jumped over that fence." In this brief pause, the suspect shot Kenney in the neck before disappearing into the night.

After two weeks, Kenney succumbed to his injuries on April 6, 1926 at the age of 28. He left behind a wife and daughter.

The hunt for the suspect intensified. Police questioned a man whose name was on a pawn shop receipt for one of the stolen radios, and that man suggested it had been forged by his acquaintance Paul Emmanuel Hilton, a known criminal. Cops around the city were alerted and had Hilton's mugshot.

Two detectives on their day off decided to look for Hilton at one place he might be—Hilton was a baseball fan, so they staked out the entrance to the Polo Grounds on the Giants’ opening day, April 13, 1926. When they spotted him, they asked for identification and grabbed Hilton before he could reach the gun in his pocket. Hilton was charged with Kenney's murder and later found guilty. He died by electric chair on February 18, 1927.

The Newtown Historical Society, Council Member Joann Ariola, and the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society worked to honor Kenney with a street co-naming, and the community held a ceremony to commemorate its installation on April 6, 2024, 98 years after his death.