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2019 REVIEW to Maurizio Cattelan’s nowinfamous piece “Comedian,” which was literally a banana duct taped to a wall that sold for $120,000 at a Miami gallery on Dec. 7. Fornino owner Michael Ayoup duct-taped a margherita pizza pie to his pizzeria’s wall asking for a meager $100,000 to make it yours. Williamsburg beachfront: Developers unveiled plans on Dec. 12 for two massive skyscrapers along with new beaches and parkland planned for the Williamsburg waterfront. Two Trees Management �� COURIER LIFE,30 DEC. 27, 2019-JAN. 2, 2020 want to erect the 650- and 600-foot towers at a former industrial fuel-oil-storage once owned by Con Edison which the fi rm had purchased the day prior. The development will house a YMCA featuring a pool on its fi rst fl oor. Of it’s 1,000 residential units, 250 will be reserved for apartment seekers making between 40-60 percent of the city’s area median income. Both ways: US Congress passed long-awaited legislation to reinstate split tolls on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Dec. 17. The move will allow the MTA — the agency governing charges on the span — to charge drivers head in both directions along the span at half the current rate. The bridge has had a federally-mandated one-way toll since the 1980s, with the charge currently at $19, with discounts for EZPass users and residents of the Rock. MTA chief Pat Foye estimates this move will produce between $10-15 million in additional annual revenue for the cash-strapped transit agency. Empire on Lincoln: Sisters Ana Prince and Brenda Castellanos opened their third restaurant in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in December — on the same block as their first two! Their third venture, Antojitos del Patron, will focus on traditional Mexican dishes, as opposed to their first restaurant Taqueria el Patron, which serves up California style Mexican grub across the street. New Year’s Destitution: Residents of a Bedford-Stuyvesant homeless shelter were forced to pack their bags and move to other shelters in the city’s system, after the shelter was “fl ipped” to accommodate homeless men with mental health issues. Shelter residents say it’s just another chapter in the Department of Homeless Services web of cruel bureaucracy, while neighbors and elected offi cials claim the change was dropped on their head with no warning, giving them little time to prepare for a new element in the neighborhood and say goodbye to the women of the shelter. Continued from Page 28 Keiko Niccolini (far left) with her daughter Rayas, and Angela McCall. Niccolini is petitioning for the changes to be called off. Photo by Caroline Ourso Michael Ayoub and his masterpiece “Pizza” which hangs at his restaurant Fornino in Greenpoint, which can be yours for only $100,000. Photo by Caroline Ourso ��