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Andrew Gounardes, Democrat for the State Senate
From high-school intern to novice candidate six years ago to this year’s run for the 22nd district, the Brooklyn attorney has been trying to get a Democrat into Martin Golden’s seat for a long time.
The board’s vote is not binding, but it sends a signal to higher powers that the rezoning proposal will need to change before it has local support.
Only blocks from the statue’s new home in Green-Wood Cemetery, where Sims is buried, is a hospital where unequal care for childbearing black women is starkly evident.
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