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 the Brooklyn House of  
 Detention as part of the city’s  
 $8.7 billion plan to close Rikers  
 Island and move detainees  
 to four newly-built boroughbased  
 jails by 2026. City Corrections  
 offi cials relocated the  
 roughly 390 detainees at the  
 Atlantic Avenue holding facility, 
  between Smith Street and  
 Boerum  Place,  to  other  lockups  
 in  November  in  Manhattan  
 and the Bronx to prepare  
 for the building’s demolition.  
 Brooklyn  Democratic  
 Party Boss Frank Seddio resigns: 
  After eight years serving  
 as chairman of the Kings  
 County Democratic Party, Seddio  
 abruptly stepped down from  
 the post, allowing Assemblywoman  
 Rodneyse Bichotte to  
 take his place. Seddio has been  
 a staple of local politics, having  
 previously  served  as  Community  
 Board  18’s  district  manager, 
  a state Assemblyman, and  
 a surrogate court judge.  
 Anti-fracking activists  
 protest Nat Grid pipeline:  
 Northern Brooklynites blast  
 National Grid  reps  at  a Community  
 Board 1 meeting for  
 building a seven-mile fracked  
 gas  pipeline  underneath  
 the borough’s streets from  
 Brownsville to the Newtown  
 Creek in Greenpoint. The protest  
 kicks off a year-long campaign  
 against the utility company’s  
 controversial plans. 
 Boro  Pres  Assails  Midwesterners  
 in  Incendiary  
 Speech:  Borough  President  
 and Mayoral Candidate Eric  
 Adams ruffl ed  feathers  when  
 he ranted against transplants  
 and gentrifi ers at a Martin  
 Luther King Jr. Day event in  
 Harlem. Adams accused midwesterners  
 of “hijacking”  
 apartments and demanding  
 they return to wherever they  
 came from. “Go back to Iowa,  
 go back to Ohio, New York belongs  
 An activist broke into the construction site of National Grid’s underground pipeline.  Brookyln Paper fi le photo 
 to New Yorkers!” Adams  
 said, drawing applause at the  
 event but outrage from critics. 
 MTA looks to revive Bay  
 Ridge Branch:  The  MTA  
 commissioned a study of a  
 proposed  billion-dollar  passenger  
 train that would run  
 through  southern  Brooklyn.  
 The agency awarded infrastructure  
 fi rm  Aecom  with  a  
 $1.3 million contract  to determine  
 the feasibility study for  
 the project, which would revive  
 passenger service on the  
 Bay Ridge Branch — a freight  
 line  that  once  carried  straphangers  
 through Bay Ridge,  
 Bensonhurst, Midwood, and  
 East Flatbush until it was decommissioned  
 in 1924.  
 FEBRUARY 
 Border  patrol  agents  
 shoot a Mexican man in  
 Gravesend:  Agents  with  Immigrations  
 and Customs Enforcement  
 shot a Mexican man  
 in the face in Gravesend while  
 trying  to  arrest  his  mother’s  
 boyfriend. The 26-year-old victim  
 was in the US legally, his  
 family said, arguing that the  
 offi cer  used  excessive  force,  
 and fi led a lawsuit against  
 him about a week later.  
 Canarsie  rapper  Pop  
 Smoke shot dead: Pop Smoke,  
 a rap artist native to Canarsie, 
  was shot dead inside his  
 Los Angeles rental home. The  
 20-year-old,  whose  real  name  
 was Bashar Jackson, made  
 headlines the month before  
 his death for transporting a  
 stolen vehicle from California  
 to  his  mother’s  home  in  Canarsie. 
   
 Sea Gate residents call  
 for police chief to resign  
 amid corruption allegations: 
   Residents  in  a  southern  
 Brooklyn  gated  community  
 demanded that the chief  
 of  the  community’s  private  
 police  force  resign,  arguing  
 that he gave out phony police  
 paraphernalia to the board of  
 the homeowner’s association  
 and  repeatedly  re-hired  and  
 protected an offi cer who used  
 racial slurs against two other  
 police offi cers.  
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