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Photo by Park Slope StoopTuesday, September 13 is New York’s Primary Elections. Polls will be open from 6am – 9pm. Our coverage area has variation depending on where you live. To get detailed information based on your exact address, visit Voter’s Edge New York [http://votersedge.nyccfb.info/en/
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The race to succeed term-limited City Councilman Vincent Gentile — who has represented the 43rd District for more than 13 years — is starting to heat up. No campaign accounts have been set up yet, and the elections won’t be underway for more than a year (November 2017), but here is
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City announces voter registration forms in five new languages at Homecrest Library. (Courtesy: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office)By Elizabeth Elizalde Just in time for election day. Voter registration forms in five new languages — Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, French and Arabic — are available under the City’s effort to
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The 120,000 purged voters who disappeared from the rolls ahead of this year’s primary elections been restored to voting rolls, according to the Board of Elections [http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/documents/boe/minutes/2016/060716meet.pdf] (BOE). The BOE announced
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Kate Cucco. (Photo: Kate Cucco [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10106589644097325&set=a.10100252869529355.2833944.12400090&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Bay Ridge community activist Kate Cucco, the chief of staff for former Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny, announced her candidacy this week to represent the 46th Assembly
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Betty Anna Canizio with former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes (Source: Facebook)Betty Anne Canizio — the Board Of Elections (BOE) official who was suspended in the aftermath of the purge of registered Brooklyn voters [/thousands-of-brooklyn/#.VzDADKODGko] revealed during New York’s presidential primary — has no intention of ending her campaign
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Courtesy of Pam Harris/FacebookDemocrat Pamela Harris successfully defeated GOP candidate Lucretia Regina-Potter in the special election to fill the assembly seat left vacant by Alec Brook-Krasny, winning 63 percent of the vote, according to preliminary Board of Elections numbers. Harris, a former corrections officer and longtime Coney Island community
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(Photo: John Morton [https://www.flickr.com/photos/morton/3002118065/] / Flickr) Tuesday, November 3, is New York’s General Elections. Polls open from 6am – 9pm and here’s what you need to know. In our area, the elections are primarily for local judges, including Judge of the Civil Court – Kings
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Photo by Dan Donovan for Congress ["https://www.facebook.com/DanDonovanSI/photos/pb.584345048364491.-2207520000.1430743885./639312992867696/?type=1&theater</a] The numbers are in. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan sailed to victory over opponent Councilman Vincent Gentile in last night’s special election. Republican Donovan
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Councilman Vincent Gentile, Green Party candidate James Lane, and DA Daniel Donovan (Photo by Kimberly Conner)By Kimberly Conner It was a cold, wet evening, but things heated up quickly. Community members gathered [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2015/03/11th-district-congressional-candidates-debate-bay-ridge-tuesday-march-31/] at the Guild for Exceptional Children’s headquarters building (260
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Source: StatenIslandDA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77EVbTguEE]/YouTube Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan has been named the Republican candidate for the not-yet-called special election to replace disgraced Congressman Michael Grimm [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/12/congressman-michael-grimm-will-resign/]. The Staten Island Advance reports [http://www.silive.com/news/
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ObermanThe Trump Village co-op board headed by former City Council candidate Igor Oberman filed a libel suit against a tenant who established a blog to vent criticism of the board’s actions. Oberman filed the suit against resident Yuliya Bezvoleva on behalf of the Trump Village Section 4 board last
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Congressman Michael Grimm’s trial on fraud and tax evasion charges [/grimm-tax-fraud/] is set to begin on December 1 after a federal judge yesterday denied a request from the lawmaker’s defense team to delay it. The trial will take place after the November election, but not long enough after
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Gentile (Source: Gentile’s office)Councilman Vincent Gentile of Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst confirmed to the New York Observer that he is considering a challenge to State Senator Marty Golden, and told the paper that he sees the Republican’s support drying up. If he runs and wins it will
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Steven Cymbrowitz (l.) and Ben Akselrod (r.)Conservative Democrat Ben Akselrod appears to be launching his second attempt to unseat incumbent Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, recently filing papers with the state to form a campaign committee. Akselrod mounted his first challenge to Cymbrowitz in 2012, rising from relative obscurity to a
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Grimm, left; Christie, right.Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm came to the defense of embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today, saying the fellow Republican has “demonstrated true leadership” amid the expanding scandal surrounding the George Washington Bridge. Christie has come under fire after e-mails and