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COURIER LIFE, D 38 EC. 28, 2018–JAN. 3, 2019 M B G
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turned even bluer on Election
Day, with voters electing
a handful of Dems to seats
long held by Republican pols.
Democratic state Senate hopeful
Andrew Gounardes defeated
longtime GOP state
Sen. Marty Golden in a shocking
upset. Congressional blueparty
candidate Max Rose
also won in his race against
Rep. Dan Donovan — who represents
a swath of Southern
Brooklyn and all of Staten Island
— knocking the city’s
lone House Republican out
of offi ce. Voters also chose to
send Fort Greene Councilwoman
Letitia “Tish” James
to Albany as New York State’s
fi rst black attorney general.
Don’t look now: Dumbo
locals warned that a quartet
of towers poised to rise across
the river in Manhattan will
block Washington Street’s
iconic view of the Empire State
Building framed by the Manhattan
Bridge. A foursome
of builders wants to erect the
80-, 69-, 63-, and 62-story highrises
in the outer borough on
the bank of the East River in
a massive development project
that needs approval from the
City Planning Commission,
but isn’t required to formally
go before the community or
Council.
Signing on: Another sign
will soon grace the Brooklyn
Heights skyline where the Jehovah’s
Witnesses Watchtower
letters once hovered, after the
city on Nov. 8 ruled the property’s
new owners’ can put their
own branding on the building’s
still-in-place scaffolding.
Room to grow: Offi cials
on Nov. 26 revealed designs
for a community farm they
want to plant on a two-acre,
overgrown plot next door to
a Bergen Beach school. Plans
for the growing patch on Avenue
N between E. 71st and
72nd streets call for creating
a greenhouse, several raised
beds for planting crops, a
kitchen and classroom, a storage
shed, restrooms, an orchard,
and a central patch of
artifi cial turf where kids can
roam. Work on the farm is expected
to start next year, according
to planners.
Squeaky clean! Federal
offi cials on Nov. 27 announced
a section of the fetid Gowanus
Canal is now cleaner than it
has been in more than a century,
after workers in November
fi nally wrapped a
pilot dredging-and-capping
program as part of the channel’s
federally led cleanup. The
program in the Fourth Street
Turning Basin kicked off in
October of 2017, and fi nished
more than six months after its
initial April 2018 deadline.
Another route: City offi
cials announced they are
considering a third scheme
for their looming fi x to the
Brooklyn–Queens Expressway’s
triple cantilever, after
pushback from locals and pols
about their two previously revealed
options. The new plan
— ginned up by an urban planner
tapped by members of civic
group the Brooklyn Heights
Association — proposes creating
a temporary roadway near
Brooklyn Bridge Park for expressway
traffi c during the repairs,
instead of sending those
cars and trucks on a speedway
that would replace the Brooklyn
Heights Promenade for
much of the years-long fi x.
December
Closed for winter: The
Coney Island outpost of Wahlburgers
— the burger chain
owned by famous siblings
Mark, Donnie, and Paul Wahlberg
— temporarily closed its
doors this winter for the second
year in a row on Dec. 2.
The restaurant will re-open
sometime in the spring under
the same management, according
to an executive at the
Massachusetts-based parent
company of the burger joint,
which franchises its locations
to independent operators. The
parent company fi rst closed
the Coney location in September
2017, citing management
“restructur ing,” and reopened
it May 2018 under new
management.
Front-yard work: Brooklyn
Bridge Park leaders on
Dec. 5 announced a slew of
changes in store for Brooklyn’s
front yard, including that they
will completely replace the beleaguered
Squibb Bridge to
the meadow after closing it indefi
nitely for the second time
in July; that they will boot the
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
from its long-time location inside
the fi reboat station at Fulton
Ferry Landing to make
way for a new outpost of Ample
Hills ; and that they will
be replacing a Pier 2 handball
court with a new squash court .
Park leaders hope to have the
new squash court and Ample
Hills location up and running
by next summer, with the
Squibb Bridge replacement
open sometime in 2020.
Hero’s farewell: Hundreds
of New York’s Bravest gathered
on Dec. 13 to say goodbye
to their colleague whom authorities
suspect a man killed
days before, amid a fi t of road
rage on the Belt Parkway that
turned fatal on Dec. 9. District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez
charged the man with seconddegree
murder roughly a week
later, on Dec. 18.
Show time! Movie buffs
at Nitehawk Cinema opened
their new Nitehawk Prospect
Park location inside the former
Pavilion Theater following
its roughly two-year restoration
on Dec. 19. The new
650-seat movie house features
seven theaters, digital projectors,
three 35mm reel-to-reel
projectors.
Continued from page 14
DONE!: The Environmental Protection
Agency in November completed
its pilot dredging-and-capping
program inside the Gowanus Canal’s
Fourth Street Turning Basin.
File photo by Jason Speakman
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