US District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis and former US Attorney General Eric Holder were among the crowd gathered at West 155th Street and Riverside Drive Saturday for a ceremony to name the street for the city’s first black fire commissioner.

Robert O. Lowery led the FDNY from 1966 to 1973. When he was appointed by Mayor John Lindsay, he was one of about 50 black people in the department.

Lowery, who died in 2001, “was not only the first black fire commissioner of the FDNY, he was the first black fire commissioner of a major city in the country,” said First Deputy Commissioner Robert Turner.

Garaufis presided over a long-running discrimination case against the FDNY.