condition," Diana said. "I was in panic mode, don't know what to say, what to think."

When Diana was finally taken to her son's bedside, she said he was tethered by tubes. Adrian had a fractured skull and was on a ventilator. At 10 p.m. on April 1, 2011, Adrian was declared brain dead. He was gone, but his organs were still intact.

"When the folks from the New York Organ Donor Network approached Adrian's mother, I was there," Mimi Fortunato said. "At first she didn't quite fully understand, I mean, how could that be, he's not, he's not here, how could you take his heart. He needs it."

"I did say, 'leave me alone,'" Diana said. "I wanted to be left alone. I just wanted to take my son's bodyRobert Moses would absolutely have bulldozed an entire thriving neighborhood, displacing and thus destroying the local communities. He would have gotten a particular thrill if those erstwhile communities were composed of low-income people or people of color or, since he countenanced no backtalk or criticism, artists. The specter of Moses menacing vulnerable communities is important to remember as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio conspire with Amazon for that private company to colonize Long Island City — and likely much more of the city as hyper-gentrification sets in and cascades outward from Queens. The thing is, against the odds, Cuomo and de Blasio are worse than Moses: This Amazon deal includes all the short-sighted cruelty and displacement; all the callous disregard