Melville Street Renamed to Honor BAPS Temple Guru
By Mitch Baxter The segment of Deshon Drive in front of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple in Melville was recently renamed the "HH Pramukh Swami Drive / Deshon Drive," in honor of the temple's spiritual leader and founder Pramukh Swami Maharaj. The October 15th renaming ceremony was timed to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of the Swami, who died in 2016. The BAPS Temple serves the rapidly-growing Indian community in Huntington and Oyster Bay, and currentl