Dyker Heights Was Divided Into Three NYC Council Districts to Minimize That Community’s Power – Brannan Didn’t Stand Up For Brooklyn
NYC Council voted to keep this ridiculous council district. Gerrymandering is alive and well here. The same Democrats who complained about gerrymandering years ago, were silent now.
No one thought that breaking Dyker Heights into three districts was a problem, while they diminish the community’s power in this beautiful neighborhood.
We have a lot of political people who wanted votes for Democrat or Republican District Leaders, yet none of them spoke up or even wrote an article for a local paper to let Dyker Heights know their power would be diminished. These are district leaders in the community: Joe Bove, Tori Burnhas, Chris McCreight, John Quaglione, Lucretia Regina Potter and Tori Burnhas and Dionne Brown-Jordan.
Councilman Justin Brannan has shown he isn’t interested in representing Dyker Heights and voted in favor of this map.
Brannan thought this was a connected district and acceptable for Brooklyn.
When Alexis Aviles, the City Councilwoman in Sunset Park heard about this redistricting plan, she called her community together so they could fight it. She held meetings and shared a lot of information so the community’s power would not be taken. Justin Brannan did not hold any meetings.
Councilman Justin Brannan did not take action for seniors, when their basements flooded last year. At the September 2022, Community Board 10 meeting, many of our neighbors stood up and said Gounardes and Brannan failed to help them while their basements are flooding because the city’s system hasn’t been maintained.
Dyker Heights – here’s the good thing about redistricting. District 47 is currently Ari Kagan’s district. Ari could easily win in SeaGate because Mark Treyger lives there. Ari could win in Coney Island because he is community building with Frontus and others. On the strip going up to Bay Ridge, Ari could win because he has been doing a good job cleaning his community and asking the community to hold him accountable. (He doesn’t have a big head yet.) If Ari Kagan isn’t corrupt, Ari Kagan will be able to make a good case for himself in Bay Ridge as corruption is rampant here.
And housing developments in Kagan’s district are being divided and they are also trying to take power away from them:
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Hugs,
marlene
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