Brooklyn Unveils 'Billy Jones Way' Near Baby's All Right

Brooklyn has named a street after Billy Jones, the late co-founder and owner of Baby's All Right. The city unveiled Billy Jones Way on Sunday, at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Broadway — just down the street from the venue he built into a New York nightlife institution. Jones died in 2025 from glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He was 45.

The honor puts a permanent marker on a career that shaped the city's music scene well beyond one club. Jones opened or co-owned a string of New York venues:

• Baby's All Right in Williamsburg
• Night Club 101
• Elvis Guesthouse
• the Dance
• Funny Bar

Baby's owner Tom Moore spoke at the ceremony, and his words carried the story's weight.

"Billy did more for music in New York than what can be put into words," Moore said. "Every fresh-off-the-boat artist or music obsessive who was smart enough to send him a message, got a reply, a coffee, and, more often than not, something that felt like the beginning of a story."

Moore framed Jones's gift as an instinct for show business itself. "When Billy saw that blend of sound and vision, he cheered it on," he said. "He knew that this was the most basic principle of show business—that an audience made an idea into an act, and that an act could become part of the big story. Baby's All Right is the house that his cheer built and where countless stories have started since."

What does a street name change for a venue's legacy?

In practice, co-namings like this don't alter legal addresses — they attach an honorary second name to an existing street. What they do change is visibility. Every fan walking from the Bedford Avenue subway stop toward Baby's All Right now passes a public acknowledgment of the person behind the door. For a club that runs on the energy of young, unknown acts, that's a fitting monument: the name sits at street level, where Jones spent his working life.

The ceremony didn't end at the sign. Baby's All Right hosted a party afterward, with surprise sets from Blood Orange, Porches, Fcukers, and more. It's hard to read the lineup as anything but a working tribute — the kind of night Jones was known for cheering on, staged in the room his enthusiasm built.

Jones's death at 45 cut short a career still in motion, but the street naming suggests his influence had already solidified among the city's music community. Billy Jones Way now anchors a corner of Brooklyn to the man who made it a starting point for countless bands.