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After months of delays and setbacks, Community Board 12 voted Tuesday night to rename Liverpool Street between 94th and 95th Avenue "Sean Bell Way."

The decision drew cheers and hugs from Bell's family and supporters.

"It's wonderful," said Bell's father, William.

"I feel great," said Bell's mother, Valerie. "It was one good stepping stone, because my son's name will be seen out there on the street."

Bell was shot and killed November 2006 in the early-morning hours of his wedding day after leaving his bachelor party at Club Kalua. Two of the friends who were riding with him in the car at the time of the shooting were also injured.

Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell says the vote to rename the street is a great honor.

"I just want people to realize the person who Sean was, and he was a great man," she said. "And this tonight proves that there are people who do understand. And do realize that he was a great man, a great role model."

The community board's decision comes nearly a year after a Queens judge acquitted three officers of manslaughter, assault, and reckless endangerment charges. The Justice Department is still looking into the case, but some of Bell's supporters say the vote provides some measure of justice.

"April 25th would be the one-year anniversary of the verdict. So this is a week before, so you know, it's like a small measure of justice was given to them," said supporter Shawn Williams.

Most of the residents at the meeting were for the name change, but some did not support it. The head of community board voted against it.

"I'm entitled to my vote. There is one vote for one person and my vote was my vote. That's all I'm going to say about it," said CB 12 Chair Adjoa Gzifa. "I don't have to give a reason."

The residents who were against the plan did not want to elaborate, but their biggest complaint was Bell did not live in the neighborhood. Now that the board has given the name change the green light, the proposal will go to the City Council for approval.