BROOKLYN’S TOP
YEAR IN REVIEW
The year of 2021 brought us
many devastating stories
about an ongoing pandemic,
business closures, and
horrifi c crimes — but Brookylnites
also surprised us with
countless 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 his 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:
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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.
Gowanus Canal Superfund
Cleanup barge sinks:
A large barge loaded with
more than 800 tons of polluted
sludge from the Gowanus Canal
sank into the fetit waterway.
The boat, meant to be
cleaning sediment from the
canal bed of toxic materials,
had been moored in Gowanus
Bay and became submerged.
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.
FEBRUARY
Nor’easter brings over
13 inches of snow to Brooklyn:
Winter-loving Brooklynites
took to the frigid outdoors
on Feb. 1 as the borough
was blasted with a nor’easter
that brought over 13 inches
of snowfall. As the inclement
weather approached, then-
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared
a state of emergency in Kings
County, as well as 43 other
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