Bronx
Three-Way Race for North Bronx Council Seat
Aliyah Veal |
Incumbent Andy KIng faces two opponents on Tuesday.
Incumbent Andy KIng faces two opponents on Tuesday.
‘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.’
A Bronx resident makes the case for one of the Democrats running for the 18th district Council seat.
The concerns of small businesses in the Bronx are driving at least some toward Randy Abreu, a Democrat running for Council.
Chances are, when you think of the Bronx, you do not picture many of the neighborhoods that comprise Council District 13.
A team of reporters from the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism fanned out across the borough last Wednesday to see how people in stores, parks, police precincts, museums, libraries and, yes, even schools were approaching the last full week of summer vacation and the year that loomed ahead.
WNYC and City Limits team up to report on the 18th City Council district in the Bronx, where Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr., a state senator and father of the Bronx borough president, is just one of the five names on the ballot.
Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj’s muscular fundraising has made him the putative leader of the pack seating an East Bronx Council seat. But it’s also made his real-estate connections a talking point for rivals in the race.
Community groups are upset that the city does not appear to have incorporated any of their suggestions.
Randy Abreu and Felix Perdomo are hoping to oust fellow Democrat Fernando Cabrera in the September 12 primary.