Queens Students Pay Their Respects to Rodney Dangerfield

Late comedian Rodney Dangerfield is getting his own memorial plaque. Dangerfield grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens, and that's where students from Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy have been working on a plaque to memorialize the actor.

Carl Ballenas is the teacher leading these students and also the president of Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery -- the nonprofit that funded the project. He says the plaque reminds his students of the importance of their local history. 

"They take away a love of history. They take away a love of their community. They start to respect the people in the past, and the past is not something that you ignore but you cherish and you look back at."

The plaque will be located in a garden between Austin’s Ale House’s Trackside Cafe and the Kew Gardens Long Island Rail Road station. It will be unveiled at the first ever Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema on August 4th at 8pm.