Tremaine Wright For Assembly Fundraiser
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, where respect for political elders is not taken lightly, Tremaine Wright will have a fundraiser tomorrow night for her expected 2016 run for the 56th Assembly District seat that Assembly member Annette Robinson now holds.
Robinson represented Bed-Stuy in the City Council from 1992-2001 until she was term-limited out and then swapped seats with former longtime Assemblyman and City Councilman Al Vann in 2002.
Wright is a lifelong community resident and is actively involved in local politics. She currently chairs Community Board 3, is an active member of the Vanguard Independent Democratic Association (VIDA), and is an attorney who took classes under President Obama when he taught and and she attended the University Of Chicago Law School.
Additionally, Wright owns and operates the popular Common Grounds coffee shop on Tompkins Avenue, which is a welcoming place for discourse on a variety of tops and the arts .
Wright had planned to run against Robinson in 2014, when strong rumors had it that she was retiring, but after she announced she was running for re-election again, Wright withdrew out of respect to Robinson.
The fundraiser is set for tomorrow night in Williamsburg.
Brooklyn Young Republican Club Swears In New President
The Brooklyn Young Republican Club, which boasts itself as the oldest Young Republican Club in the nation having been established in 1880, swore in new president Brandon Washington yesterday at the home of four-year outgoing president Glenn Nocera in Kensington.
Washington was born and raised in Canarsie and currently is in the U.S. Army reserves.
Bay Ridge State Sen. Marty Golden did the swearing in. Both Golden and Washington noted that the ceremony was attended by a very diverse cross section of Brooklynites, and that although the GOP remains small in the borough, many new immigrants reflect its’ core values of hard work, opportunity and self-reliance.
De Blasio, Nadler, Velezquez Make Sunset Park Announcement
Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Representatives Nydia Velázquez and Jerrold Nadler will host a press conference to make an announcement this morning at 10:15 a.m. at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, 81 39th Street in Sunset Park.
The 72-acre site is tentatively under the control of the City’s Economic Development Corporation. Plans call for light manufacturing, high tech, tourist and maritime use. It also has rail access and is being touted as an outlet to Nadler’s long fought for dream of a cross harbor freight tunnel.
Additionally, Bay Ridge State Sen. Marty Golden said, yesterday, there are early talks to run a bus along with waterfront corridor from Sunset Park to Bay Ridge.
Treyger Responds To Coney Island Shootings
Coney Island City Council Member Mark Treyger will joined elected officials, community leaders, clergy members and residents today outside the Coney Island Houses to denounce the recent incidents of gun violence, including at least three shootings in the past week.
Treyger will call on the city to take a number of specific steps to improve safety in Coney Island’s residential areas, including expanding the “Summer All Out” and “One City: Safe and Fair Everywhere” initiatives to the 60th Precinct; allocating additional PEP and PSA officers; implementing ShotSpotter technology; and reopening NYCHA community centers destroyed by Sandy.
WHO: Council Member Mark Treyger, elected officials, community leaders, clergy and residents.
WHAT: Press conference to call for specific city action in response to ongoing incidents of gun violence in Coney Island’s residential areas, including at least three incidents in the past week.
WHERE: Coney Island Houses – corner of Surf Avenue and West 30th Street, Coney Island, Brooklyn.
WHEN: Monday, June 29th at 1 p.m.
Levin To Hold Greenpoint Tenants’ Forum
Northern Brooklyn City Councilman Stephen Levin will hold a Greenpoints Tenants Forum tomorrow night to allow local residents to bring their housing questions and issues directly to HPD and community based organizations that work to support tenants.
Officials from the City’s Department of Housing, Preservation and Development, North Brooklyn Development Corporation and St. Nicks Alliance will be on hand to address any issues and answer questions.
WHAT: Greenpoint Tenants’ Forum.
WHEN: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 30
WHERE: Polish National Home, 261 Driggs Avenue at Eckford Street.
