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2019 YEAR IN REVIEW
Well that was fast! 2019 is nearly over, but it feels like just yesterday that Gov. Andrew
Cuomo pulled off the ultimate flex and threw out more than three years of planning to
keep the L-train from shutting down. Of course, Cuomo’s 11th-hour ploy to avert the
L-pocalypse was just three days into the year, which would sadly come to be marked by
some grim records, including the longest ever shutdown of the federal government, a
massive measles outbreak , and the most cyclist fatalities of all time. But it wasn’t all bad!
Mayor de Blasio announced his “Green Wave” expansion of the city’s cycling network, a
senior friendly racket game called pickleball became the sensation of southern Brooklyn,
and Congress closed out the year with a vote to nix the Verrazzano Bridge’s one-way toll,
which is expected to ease traffic for long suffering Bayridgites heading to Manhattan, and
generate more than $10 million in additional annual revenue for the state.
JANUARY
Cance-L’d: Governor Andrew
Cuomo abruptly called
off the year-in-the-making
L-train shutdown on Jan. 3,
three months ahead of the Lpocalypse,
which would have
shut down service between
Brooklyn and Manhattan for
15 months to allow for repairs
to the tunnel beneath the East
River, which suffered severe
flood damage during Superstorm
Sandy. While the announcement
came as a relief to
many northern Brooklynites,
some residents who had already
relocated in anticipation
of the shutdown were nonetoo
pleased with Cuomo’s
11th-hour power move.
Prosecutor perishes:
Former District Attorney
Charles Hynes passed away at
a hospice-care center in Florida
on Jan. 29 at 83 years old.
Hynes served as the borough’s
top prosecutor for 24 years,
taking office in 1990 and retaining
the seat until 2014,
where he cracked down on
domestic-abuse crimes and
formed his reputation as a
champion for abused women.
But Hynes’ legacy was tarnished
by his politically motivated
prosecution of Brooklyn
lawyer John O’Hara for
voter fraud, and allegations
that he used $219,000 in seized
funds to pay a personal media
consultant.
What a drag: The parents
of an 11-year-old drag
queen suffered constant harassment
in the form of death
threats and near-daily visits
by city social workers after
a video of the youngster performing
at a Williamsburg gay
bar went viral. Coverage of
the performance by right-wing
publications spurred critics to
file more than 150 complaints
of child abuse with the city’s
Administration for Children’s
Services, which spurred the
visits from social workers.
FEBRUARY
That stinks: The city’s
neighborhood-wide rezoning
of Gowanus got off to a rough
start in February, when officials
from the Department of
City Planning and other agencies
came under fire for providing
a lackluster presentation
to concerned locals, who
were forced to wait in long
lines to obtain information at
booths setup at the auditorium
in PS 32. Frustrations boiled
over when attendees burst into
chants, demanding the city
make repairs to the neighborhood’s
Governor’s Office
crumbling public housing
complexes, whose residents
make up a quarter of
the community, while environmental
groups called on
officials to do more to address
the pollution along the noxious
Gowanus Canal.
Arrested development:
Construction of a new cultural
space at the base of Fort
Greene’s 32-story 300 Ashland
residential tower stalled
on Feb. 20, while the city’s
Economic Development Corporation
hashed out a deal
with developer Two Trees. As
part of plans the city approved
in 2013 for the building, the
former publicly-owned parking
lot — bounded by Flatbush
and Lafayette avenues,
as well as Ashland and Hanson
places — was supposed to
house a branch of the Brooklyn
Public Library, a home
for the Museum of Contemporary
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tenants Whole Foods and the
Apple Store, which opened in
2017 and 2018.
Cold Case: The feds
opened an investigation into
the management of a federal
prison in Sunset Park after
over 1,600 inmates were left
without heat in the dead of
winter, sparking weeks of
protests outside the prison.
The federally operated detention
center was later sued by
the Federal Defenders of New
York for subjecting prisoners
to “inhumane” conditions
when it failed to restore heat
and power after a Jan. 27 electrical
outage.
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An 11-year old drag
queen from Brooklyn
drew national attention
in January. Dominatrix
Charlotte Taillor ran
into trouble with her
neighbor in March. Gov.
Cuomo shocked the city
by shutting down the L
train shutdown in January.
MARCH
Turning a corner: The
borough’s St. Patrick’s Day
parade formally welcomed
LGBTQ marchers for the first
time in the march’s 44-year
history. The organizers’ decision
to permit a more queer
marchers came years after
leaders of the city’s St. Paddy’s
Day march through Manhattan
invited the Lavender
and Green Alliance, an LGBTQ
advocacy group, to join
that procession in 2015.
Whipped out of town:
Dominatrix Charlotte Taillor
chose to relocate her Bed-
Stuy pleasure dungeon after
an intolerant neighbor vilified
her during a monthslong
harassment campaign.
Taillor decided to pack up her
adults-only classroom, called
the Taillor Collective, after
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