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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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2020
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