The following are a few of my favorite stories that KCP posted in 2019 in no particular order:

Court Rules Against City, Millions of Dollars Of Wealth Restored

By Stephen Witt and Kelly Mena

In many ways this story was the culmination of my and former KCP senior Editor Kelly Mena‘s Third Party Transfer series. The story tells how six property owners received their properties back and with it millions of dollars of equity that was taken from the black community. Both Kelly and I literally dropped a few tears of joy. Kelly has since gone on to become a CNN politics reporter in Washington DC.

Bushwick’s Puerto Rican Day Parade Shows Hispanic Unity Amid Gentrification

By Joseph De La Cruz

An excellent story full of pride and joy that recalls Bushwick back in the day before gentrification when it was a tight-knit Latino community.

Op-Ed: A Midwood Déjà Vu: From Murrow to Urban Dove

By Martin Samoylov

This op-ed was posted very recently, but I really liked its sense of history including links to old stories. Very well-written piece.

Rent Money Cockfight

By Garth Miro

Hands down my favorite Friday Fiction story. Garth’s frenetic energy and style is always engaging, and his depiction of society’s underbelly is a side of the city and the country that needs telling.

One Year After Election Salazar Still Doesn’t Have District Office

By Bernadette DeVito

Contrary to what some thought, this was not a slight on either State Sen. Julia Salazar or the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). It was good government reporting 101, and we are happy to see the good senator now has a district office.

Brooklyn Celebrates The Tobagonian Diaspora

By Louric Rankine

Lourie, our summer intern from East New York, was quite a find. He had a real nose for news that generated a ton of hits. Here he covered a festival for immigrants from Tobago, which shares the Caribbean island with Trinidad.