2018 REVIEW
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. Developer Scott Barone’s
plans for the site include
building market-rate, affordable,
and senior housing on
the property, along with a
school, which he said will
help make the century-old orphanage
a cornerstone of the
community again. The nuns,
who operated the former orphanage
at the Dyker Heights
building until the 1970s, fi rst
put the property up for sale in
2016, when they could no longer
afford to keep up the cityblock
sized campus.
Derailed dreams: Mayor
DeBlasio admitted his $2.5-billion
waterfront trolley connecting
Sunset Park and
Queens would not be possible
without federal funding, putting
the fate of his beloved
BQX project in the hands of
President Trump. The mayor
fi rst claimed the transit system
would pay for itself via
tax revenue generated by a
surge of development along its
14-mile track, but has now said
additional support is needed to
green-light the project. Weeks
after the mayor turned to the
Feds for money, a trio of Congressional
Brooklyn pols from
both parties said the mayor
should not hold his breath for
federal cash for his trolley, citing
the need for more details
about the project and Trump’s
slow-moving infrastructure
agenda.
Kids are alright: Two
goats found roaming the Ntrain
tracks near the Hamilton
Parkway and New Utrecht
Avenue-62nd Street stations
in Dyker Heights were rescued
and sent to an upstate
rescue farm — thanks to the
help of comedian Jon Stewart,
who took custody of the animals
following their rescue by
cops and Metropolitan Transportation
Authority workers.
Stewart and his wife Tracey
picked the kids up from a city
animal-care center after police
tranquilized and removed
them from the tracks, and
then transported them to a bucolic
rescue farm in upstate
New York.
September
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cials hiked metered streetparking
fees in Kings County
on Sept. 4, in an effort to free
up curb space in some of
Brooklyn’s most-congested
neighborhoods. Parking rates
doubled from $1 to $2 per hour
in select areas, including
Downtown, Brooklyn Heights,
and Park Slope, while other
areas’ hourly rates increased
from $1 to $1.50, and still others
went from $1 to $1.25. The
fee spikes were the fi rst to take
effect in fi ve years, and match
other major cities’ hourly
street-parking rates, according
to city offi cials.
Paper’s new faces: Schneps
Communications, a local
family-run business owned by
Victoria and Joshua Schneps,
acquired Community News
Group and NYC Community
Media, combining the three
leading local media companies
serving the fi ve boroughs
of New York City into one fi rm
with unrivaled reach in the
fi ve boroughs of New York
City, as well as Long Island
and Westchester.
She’s Miss America!
Brooklynite and former Miss
New York Nia Imani Franklin
was crowned Miss America in
faraway New Jersey’s Atlantic
City on Sept. 9. The new Miss
America originally hails from
North Carolina, but lived in
New York for a year, most recently
calling Clinton Hill
home. Franklin, who won the
title of Miss Five Boroughs
less than a year after moving
here, then took the crown of
Miss New York this past July,
which allowed her to move
on to the fi nal Miss America
stage.
Arsonist charged: Federal
prosecutors charged a
Flatlands man with damaging
more than 135 vehicles owned
by various local car dealerships
when he allegedly intentionally
set a fi re that ripped
through the Kings Plaza Shopping
Center’s parking garage
on Sept. 17. The fi re raged for
more than three hours in the
garage — where the dealerships
stored their rides on
some fl oors — injuring some
26 people, including 20 fi refi
ghters, before New York’s
Bravest put it out.
Stamp of approval: A
Council subcommittee on Sept.
20 unanimously voted to approve
the rezoning requested
by a developer in order to erect
the controversial fi ve-building
80 Flatbush complex at
the edge of Boerum Hill, after
the builder reduced the size of
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REMEMBER WHEN?: Members of New York’s Finest pulled a goat from
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