BROOKLYN’S TOP
YEAR IN REVIEW
The year of 2021 brought
us many devastating stories
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COURIER LIFE, DEC.4 31, 2021-JAN. 6, 2022
about an ongoing
pandemic, business closures,
and horrifi c crimes — but
Brookylnites also surprised
us with many uplifting tales
of locals coming together as
a community and lending a
helping hand to their struggling
neighbors.
We here at Brooklyn Paper
have been here to cover it all,
from the rollout of COVID-19
vaccines, to a wandering tortoise
venturing across the
Verrazzano Bridge only to
be returned to her Bay Ridge
home.
So, as we wind down the
year, and turn our weary eyes
towards 2022, here are some of
the top stories of the year from
Brooklyn Paper:
JANUARY
Mayor de Blasio promises
to jumpstart vaccine
push: Mayor Bill de Blasio
kicked off his last year in offi ce
by committing to a large-scale
vaccine push, promising to inoculate
one million New Yorkers
by the end of February.
While he came up just shy of
that goal, mostly due to supply
shortages, the city would end
the year with over 90 percent
of residents having received
the vaccine — far higher than
the national average.
Brooklyn Dems offi -
cially abolish party gender
requirements: The leaders
of the Brooklyn Democratic
Party passed a new rule allowing
transgender and gender
nonbinary people to run for
the lowest rung of the party’s
elected offi ces — county committe.
The change nixed gender
requirements that previously
forced seats to be evenly
split among male and female
members.
Brooklyn Dems vote to
impeach Trump, Malliotakis
votes no: Every Democratic
legislator representing
Brooklyn in the federal House
of Representatives voted to impeach
President Donald Trump
for the second time, citing his
part in the Capitol insurrection
on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, the
only Republican federal pol, Nicole
Malliotakis, voted against
impeachment, prompting protests
in her district.
Nets acquire James
Harden from Rockets: The
NBA’s Brooklyn Nets pulled off
a trade for future Hall of Famer
James Harden, adding him to
the already-star-studded roster
that included Kevin Durant
and James Harden. The move
solidifi ed the team from Barclays
Center among the best in
the league.
Cops arrest suspected
Brownsville serial killer:
Police arrested a suspected serial
killer who was allegedly
behind the murder of three elderly
women in a Brownsville
housing complex. Investigators
cuffed suspect Kevin Gavin
soon after his alleged third
grisly murder in the Woodson
Houses, a New York City Housing
Authority complex on Powell
Street.
Southern Brooklyn sees
low vax rares, high cases:
Neighborhoods in southern
Brooklyn throughout the year
lacked the rest of the borough
in rates of vaccination, as tests
also showed the area consistently
had higher numbers of
COVID-19 cases, per capita.
District Leader resigns
after incendiary comments:
District Leader resigns after
boycott of Brooklyn Dems forum:
Beleaguered District
Leader Lori Maslow resigned
from offi ce after a string of racist
comments the Marine Park
elected offi cial had made on social
media against
Report says state undercounted
COVID-19 deaths
in nursing homes: State Attorney
General Letitia James
issued a damning report on fatalities
in New York’s nursing
homes, fi nding that the Cuomo
administration had undercounted
deaths from COVID-19
while facilities failed to follow
infection control policies.
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