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Nazarethman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Kenneth Gonzalez died last spring, but he never had a funeral.
Instead, his friend Richard Jarrett stood in front of a room of mostly strangers in the basement of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City Wednesday night and, speaking slowly from a piece of paper, eulogized his friend during a service commemorating the hundreds of unhoused New Yorkers who died in the last year.
"He had a good heart. Everyone in the building misses Kenny," Jarrett said in front of a crowd of approximately 200 volunteers, social workers, and homeless advocates.
Since 1990, advocates in dozens of cities have held services on the winter solstice the longest night of the year to remember the homeless who have died over the last year.
New York s service, which was organized by the nonprofit organizations Care for the Homeless and Urban Pathways, remembered the lives of 331 people, many of whom lacked any kind of commemoration wh ....