University of the City of New York and The Metropolitan Museum of New York. Descendants Through his daughter Frances, Johnston is the great-great-grandfather of American slam poet Taylor Mali. Legacy Johnston Avenue in lower Jersey City, New Jersey (designated County Route 614 for a section of its length) begins in the west at the foot of Bergen Hill close to Communipaw Junction and ends at the Liberty State Park Station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail. The cobblestoned portion street continues under New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension, in Liberty State Park to the Communipaw Terminal on the Upper New York Bay and in the 1970s was rededicated Audrey Zapp Drive to honor a local environmentalist influential in the development of the park. The Port Johnston Coal Docks on Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey, also bear his name. The former Johnston Avenue Yard was the terminus for the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway. References External links The Johnston collection of engraved gems at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. John Taylor Johnston Collection, 1832-1981 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York. 1820 births 1893 deaths New York University alumni People from Greenwich Village Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery 19th-century American railroad executives Presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Railroad of New Jersey Yale Law School alumni Presidents of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York