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Councilmember Vanessa Gibson appears with tenants of 1515 Selwyn Avenue in the Bronx at a press conference earlier this month.
‘You can’t cook on a hotplate,’ says a 26-year resident of the building. So she spends on take-out food. ‘It eats up an exorbitant amount of money that I don’t have.’ During the holidays last year, ‘We were unable to invite families to our homes because we had no gas.’
The three candidates running for public advocate provide different rationales for how to use the office. The common thread is that each sees potential for the office to make a difference, if big changes are made.
There are signs decades of too little maintenance funding and of a greater need facing aging parks across the city—something advocates says could amount to a looming crisis.
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