Connecticut and 20th is now ‘Art Agnos Way.’ From this perch, our former mayor oversees a changing city.
Art Agnos stepped off a Greyhound Bus in San Francisco on Labor Day weekend in 1966 as the son of a shoeshine man. Christ “Christy” Agnos, a Greek immigrant, sold cigars, blocked men’s hats and, yes, shined shoes in a storefront in Springfield, Mass. Art …