Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN – Cynthia Nixon endorsed Council Member Jumaane Williams for Lieutenant Governor and Williams endorsed Nixon for the next Governor of New York yesterday. “Cynthia is the leader we need right now,” Williams said. “She’s been a fighter and I have been a fighter. That’
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With State Senate primaries just two months away, it might be a good time to revisit some district maps to get a sense of representation in Brooklyn. Some districts make sense, while others… not so much. From splitting Greenpoint in two, or the long arm of the 20th District, or
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.A second Board of Elections (BOE) officials has been suspended as a result of last month’s Democratic primary debacle. Betty Ann Canizio, the BOE Deputy Clerk for Brooklyn, will be suspended without pay as a result of the massive purge [/blog/2016/04/22/
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Photo by Melissa TourgemanSend us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. Primary Day [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2015/09/reminder-primary-day-is-tomorrow-september-10/] When: Thursday, September 10, 6am – 9pm Where: Find your poll site
Election Results
[/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Cuomo-primary.jpg]Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/15003557060/] After what a number of outlets reported to be an abysmal turnout at the polls yesterday (including anecdotes from neighbors saying they saw very few, if any, fellow voters at their poll
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The majority of Tuesday’s primary results are in, and District 38 has a new city council member on the horizon. With 57.6% of the vote, Carlos Menchaca [http://www.carlos2013.com/] outflanked incumbent Sara Gonzalez [http://saramgonzalez2013.com/states-largest-grocery-workers-union-endorses-sara-gonzalez-for-re-election-to-new-york-city-council/] to take the seat representing parts of South Slope,
Campaigning
With only a few weeks to go until the primaries, South Slope candidate for mayor, Bill de Blasio [http://www.billdeblasio.com/], has pulled ahead [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/17/bill-de-blasio-nyc_n_3773178.html?utm_hp_ref=politics] of the pack and is now ramping up campaign events
Primaries
Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz eked out a primary victory yesterday, defeating Ben Akselrod by a narrow margin and moving ahead to a rare general election battle. Cymbrowitz earned 244 votes more than his opponent, a margin of just seven percent of the 3,304 votes cast in the election. Cymbrowitz garnered
Primaries
The federal primary elections are today, and the polls are open until 9pm. You can find your polling place at the Board of Elections website [http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm], or you can call the Kings County Board of Elections at 718-797-8800, or the NYC Board of
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NYC's new voting machines // Source: Vote-NY.comOn a truly local level, there’s not much to report about tomorrow’s primaries. None of our incumbents in the State Senate or Assembly face primary challengers – though they all have general election opponents. The real primary races for those in