The race to become the next representative of the 47th Council District remains one of the few competitive races in the borough. Republican Mark Szuszkiewicz faces off against Democrat Ari Kagan to replace the term-limited Mark Treyger, who has held the seat since 2014.
District 47 comprises Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Sea Gate, and Gravesend. Treyger, a Democrat, easily won two reelection campaigns during his tenure as councilman, and has endorsed Kagan, his director of operations since April 2020. But Szuszkiewicz, who has promoted conspiracy theories and recently posted about dodging the vaccine mandate on his social media accounts — nearly won the race for Assembly District 46 last year, losing to Democrat Mathylde Frontus by a margin of only a few thousand votes.
