Rev. Henry J. McCormack (1915-1993) was a Catholic priest who served the northwestern Queens community for more than 50 years. He was head of the Hospital Apostolate for the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens and acted as the Chaplain of Queens General Hospital (now NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens) in the neighborhoods of Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest, as well as a comforter for the sick at the nearby Long Island Jewish Hospital in Glen Oaks.

McCormack was ordained on June 9, 1941. He was first appointed in the same year to St. Luke’s Church in Whitestone by Bishop Thomas E. Malloy. He served as pastor of Our Lady of the Snows parish in Floral Park from 1974 until his retirement on January 1, 1988, when he transitioned to pastor emeritus. The congregation celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination June 9, 1991. McCormack died on October 30, 1993.

Henry J. McCormack Triangle was named in his honor in the same year. It is located on a traffic island at the intersection of Union Turnpike and 79th Avenue, between 258th and 259th Streets in Floral Park, which is a short walk from Our Lady of the Snows, Father McCormack’s former parish.