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REVIEW
on a bicycling corridor in
Prospect Park — which offi
cials installed to make
the path safer for bikers —
sent one cyclist to the hospital
after he crashed into
one on May 31, within a
week of its arrival. Rather
than putting the signs on
the sides of the West Drive,
critics claimed city transit
gurus placed them in the
middle of the pavement,
creating an obstacle for cyclists
who may not be expecting
a placard-bearing
metal pole in their path.
June
Delivery drama: Federal
Immigration and
Customs Enforcement offi
cials on June 1 detained
an undocumented immigrant
delivering pizza to
Fort Hamilton Army Base.
Base offi cials handed over
Pablo Villavicencio-Calderon
— who worked for
Queens eatery Nonna Delia’s,
and made monthly
deliveries to Fort Hamilton
— because they discovered
an active warrant on
fi le from the federal immigration
agency while doing
a background check to
grant him a temporary entrance
pass, because he allegedly
lacked the proper
military identifi cation required
for entry, according
to a spokeswoman for
the base. A federal judge,
however, stayed the deportation
of Villavicencio-Calderon
in July, demanding
he be immediately released
from detention because
even though he was in the
country illegally, he had
always abided by the law.
And the Feds ultimately
dropped their deportation
case against Villavicencio-
Calderon in October.
Girl gone: A driver fatally
hit a 4-year-old girl
while pulling out of a Bushwick
laundromat’s parking
lot on June 24, then
fl ed the scene. But cops,
who caught up with the motorist
about a block away
from the deadly hit-andrun,
did not immediately
arrest her. Days after the
motorist hit and killed Luz
Gonzalez, her family and
friends marched through
Bushwick demanding justice
for the girl, with Borough
President Adams
demanding the driver be
held accountable for fl eeing
the deadly scene. The
district attorney’s investigation
into the incident is
still ongoing, according to
a spokesman.
Passionate protestors:
Hundreds of teens dressed
in orange, the color of solidarity
adopted by leading
gun-law reform groups including
Moms Demand Action,
marched across the
Brooklyn Bridge to advocate
gun-law reform and
demand lawmakers pass
legislation to prevent more
shootings.
July
Camera shy: All 140 of
the city’s school-zone speed
cameras stopped doling out
tickets to drivers on July
25, after the state Senate
failed to pass legislation extending
the cameras’ use
before the upper chamber
ended its session in June.
Activists blasted the Republican
pols who led the
state Senate — including
Bay Ridge state Sen. Marty
Golden — for not heeding
Gov. Como’s call for them
to convene a special session
to extend the speed-camera
law before it expired, with
some supporters hosting
protests outside legislators’
offi ces decrying the loss of
the technology that they
claimed saves kids’ lives.
Roughly a month later,
Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio
in August together worked
out a temporary plan to
turn the cameras back on
before school resumed in
September.
Chopped: Fans of the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
blasted the green space’s
leaders after they cut down
a stately old London plane
tree in favor of a younger
plant, calling the decision
arboreal ageism. Garden
workers claimed the mature
tree was hazardous
and susceptible to collapse,
since it contained a cavernous
hole in its trunk — a
feature that made the tree
beloved by youngsters, who
could hide from their parents
in it.
All aboard! The city
launched the fi rst supersized
boat in its fl eet of ferries
that shuttle commuters
across the East River.
The 350-seat vessel started
sailing the Rockaway route
on July 21, going back and
forth between Queens and
Manhattan with a stop at
the Brooklyn Army Terminal
in Sunset Park. Oneway
passage on the ferry,
named the “Ocean Queen
Rockstar” by young students
at a Queens public
school, costs $2.75 — the
same as a ride on any other
city ferry, or subway. It was
the fi rst of six 350-capacity
vessels to join the NYC
Ferry fl eet.
August
Done deal: A private
builder became the offi cial
owner of Dyker Heights’s
sprawling Angel Guardian
home after he and the
Sisters of Mercy closed the
$37.5-million deal on the
property on Aug. 15. Devel-
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DARK DAY: Reyna Candia, right, the mother of Luz Gonzalez, and
her godmother Fabiola Mendieta, left, held a June vigil for the girl
after a motorist hit and killed her in Bushwick.
File photo by Stefano Giovannini
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