News from the City Council this week includes the passage of the Downtown Far Rockaway rezoning, the approval of a temporary relocation site for the District 11 Sanitation Garage and forward momentum for the African Burial Ground Project.
An alternative roster of candidates is competing with the Democratic Party’s official slate.
Fully one third of Council seats will have no primary come September 12. This prompts the question: Do these individual races we’re following matter to city residents who, because they live in other districts, can’t vote in them?
The mayor says it is, and that’s a reason why he wants to fund transit improvements with a millionaire’s tax instead.
Incumbent Vincent Gentile’s departure has created an open seat in one of New York City’s few ‘swing’ districts.
‘I felt obligated to support another young women willing to take a stand to challenge the status quo in the Bronx on a people’s platform.’
Community groups and elected officials are trying a variety of means to halt the possibly imminent approval of the proposed Two Bridges skyscrapers—but they don’t all trust each other’s longer term objectives.